Re: [PATCH v2] USB: serial: pl2303: Add IBM device IDs

From: Joel Stanley
Date: Thu Mar 03 2022 - 04:46:21 EST


On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 09:44, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:24:51AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 09:15, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 08:52:29AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 08:25, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:44:46PM -0600, Eddie James wrote:
> > > > > > IBM manufactures a PL2303 device for UPS communications. Add the vendor
> > > > > > and product IDs so that the PL2303 driver binds to the device.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > Changes since v1:
> > > > > > - Fix commit message Signed-off-by ordering.
> > > > >
> > > > > Almost there. You're still missing a Co-developed-by tag, a From line,
> > > > > or both.
> > > >
> > > > It's neither. This patch was applied to a tree by myself, and I asked
> > > > Eddie to send it to mainline for merging.
> > >
> > > Then you are missing a From line. As the patch looks like know, Eddie is
> > > considered the author and not you.
> >
> > You are incorrect. Eddie is the author.
>
> Then what is your SoB doing there in the first place? If Eddie is the
> sole author as well as the submitter, and you didn't touch the patch in
> between, then your SoB does not belong in the chain.
>
> If you applied Eddie's patch to your shared tree and Eddie generated a
> patch from there, then the chain should be:
>
> SoB: E
> SoB: J
> SoB: E
>
> but this is starting to look a bit ridiculous.

I agree. I would appreciate it if you applied the patch, with or
without my sob in whatever order you deem fit.