Re: [RFC PATCH v5 3/3] net: phy: Add gmiitorgmii converter support

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Aug 16 2016 - 12:12:39 EST


> > https://github.com/lunn/linux/commit/03d375489ceb56e171056f44d0fe9c34ca
> > 5a098e
> >
> > Notice the
> >
> > Not-Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > and the Copyright i added?
> >
> > In various emails i gave you the basic idea how this should be done, a framework
> > of code, and then took your code which did not even compile and made the core
> > of it work. This is as much my code as your code, so i expect my Copyright to be
> > kept on this code. And since this is my code, i need to give a Signed-off-by,
> > which i was not yet ready to give since the code was not complete or working.
> >
> > Please put both my Copyright back and Not-Signed-Off-by back and post the
> > next version as RFC. Once i'm happy this code is O.K, i will give you a Signed-off-
> > by.
>
> Sorry I should have been included your copyright.
>
> I missed it...
> I didn't included your SOF because.
> AFAIK without explicit permission of the other person we shouldn't include SOF.
> That's why I didn't included your SOF and thanked for your efforts after SOF.
> Sorry if my understanding is wrong.

Without a SOB you cannot submit the patch for inclusion at all. You
should however reproduce tags which have been given, i.e. you should
of kept my Not-Signed-Off-by: making it clear i have not yet given
permission for this code to go into mainline.

Andrew