[PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

[Dima Zavin]

Denis,

Your approach would have been fine as well. Some mechanism to point
out where the original lives like pasting a link saying 'Original code
can be found in <url>" or "Based on the code as found in <url>" as you
did would have also been enough as well.

--Dima

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
<GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 18:28 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> I really appreciate the well structured effort which Daniel is putting
>> into this.
> Me too.
>
>
> I've an issue similar to the problem mentioned in this thread:
> I own a board which came,by default with a 2.6.27 kernel.
> A developer of the company that produced and sell the board ported the
> board to the 2.6.30 kernel during his spare time(if I remember well)
> The patch is publicly available in their svn tree in the form of a
> standard unified diff patch(not a git patch)
>
> Is that the proper format for the commit message:
>    mx31: add support for the bugbase 1.3 from buglabs
>
>    This work was based on bug-linux-2.6.30.patch that can be found
>      in buglabs's svn here:
>      svn://bugcamp.net/bug/branches/izzy/experimental
>
>    Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org>
>
> The work I did was porting forward the board initialization code and the
> serial port support from 2.6.30 to linux-next.
> I debugged(with md in uboot to get the printk buffer) the fact that the
> serial didn't work,and removed unneeded code to make it work.
>
> I've not submitted yet the work because of this thread,
> thanks to Russell King's response I think I'll submit it.
>
>
> Here's another commit I made and that went into mainline:
> commit 9df86e2e702c6d5547aced7f241addd2d698bb11
> Author: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org>
> Date:   Fri Aug 27 23:48:19 2010 +0200
>
> wl1251: Fix queue stopping/waking for TX path
>
> This patch was adapted from 06f7bc7db79fabe6b2ec16eff0f59e4acc21eb72
> (from linus's linux-2.6 tree of kernel.org)
>
> here's the original message:
>    The queue stopping/waking functionality was broken in a way that
> could
>    cause huge latencies in TX transfers and even cause the TX to stall
> in the
>    right circumstances. Correct these problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org>
> Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at adurom.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>
> In this commit I was told not to put the original sign-off, authors
> etc...
> This is because it would have been confusing and misleading:
> It would have appeared like if the commit got Ack,Sign-off etc... by the
> people involved in the original commit.
>
> Denis.
>
>
>