[PATCH 00/16] IOMMU driver for Kirin 960/970

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:27:25AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I need to start from the original patch in order to preserve its
> authorship.

Nom you don't.  We have plenty of example where people submit code
written by other, especially when it is significantly reworked,

> My plan is to work with the iommu subsystem maintainers after
> have this (and another pending patch series for DRM) merged.

Please submit it to the iommu list directly.  Seriously - you did not
even cc the relevant list, and you don't even have a comment from
the maintainers.  Don't do this kind of crap.