[PATCH 2/6] spi: atmel: add dmaengine and dt support

[Gregory CLEMENT]

2012/9/27 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>:
> On 09:39 Thu 27 Sep     , Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
>> > 2012/9/26 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:50:57PM +0800, Wenyou Yang wrote:
>> > >> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
>> > >> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
>> > >
>> > > I don't remember ever having touched the spi-atmel driver, so I'm pretty
>> > > sure I never gave my S-o-b for anything in this patch. Please reread
>> > > Documentation/SubmittingPatches and double check you understood what
>> > > Signed-off-by means before resubmitting this patch with all wrong
>> > > S-o-b's removed.
>> >
>> > By the way, what is the correct way to send a patch based on other's work ?
>> > If I believe Documentation/SubmittingPatches, only the sender should
>> > add his S-o-b.
>> > But if you want to give credit to the original author(s), what's the best way ?
>> > IMHO, I would CC them, let them add their
>> > s-o-b/ack-b/nack-b/whatever-b if they want, and maybe add something
>> > like that in the file header :
>> > /*
>> >  * based on the original work of ...
>> >  */
>> > Or in the commit message itself
>> > Is that right ?
>> Yes. If you only did some trivia like rebasing to a new upstream version you
>> can additionally keep the original author as author.
>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches has some words about that, too. Grep for
>> "lucky at maintainer.example.org" to get the right paragraph.
> uasaully when we update a patch we do keeep the author and it's S.o.B and then
> explain what we udapte + our own S.O.B
>

Well with git you can only have one author.

> Best Regards,
> J.
>
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Gregory CLEMENT