[PATCH v3 0/7] mtd: spi-nor: add a new framework for SPI NOR

Huang Shijie b32955 at freescale.com
Mon Dec 16 23:57:54 EST 2013


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 05:00:53AM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
> >From: Huang Shijie [mailto:b32955 at freescale.com]
> >On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 04:08:33AM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
> >>
> >> As much base code is copied from m25p90.c,
> >> Do you mind keeping the sign-offs of the original contributors of m25p80.c
> >> at-least in patches where much code is ported ?
> >I have added the lines in the spi-nor.c:
> >
> > " Cloned most of the code from the m25p80.c"
> >
> >> This would at-least give some credit to original authors and contributors.
> >I do not change any authors information of m25p80.c.
> >
> >If it is not enough?  Could you remind me what to do ?
> >
> (1) Add sign-offs of main authors of m25p80, so that original contributors
>  still remains in path of submission [1].
Do you mean add the sign-offs in end of the patch 3's commit message?:
	Signed-off-by: Mike Lavender <mike at steroidmicros.com>


> 
> (2) Also, please remove following from spi-nor.c
>   However, you can keep this in fsl-quadspi.c.
>   +MODULE_AUTHOR("Freescale Semiconductor Inc.");
>   I'm sure this was _not_ present in original m25p80.c
>  (m25p80.c was started as ST's driver as per MODULE_DESCRIPTION)
okay.

> 
> (3)     +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> Also, I assume the license version should be "GPLv2" ?

yes. it should be v2.

thanks
Huang Shijie





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