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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial: imx: Fix build breakage
On 07/11/2014 10:00 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 07/11/14 17:42, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:36:46PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>> Fix breakage introduced by
>>> commit c557d392fbf5badd693ea1946a4317c87a26a716,
>>> 'serial: Test for no tx data on tx restart'.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
>>
>> You forgot a "Reported-by:" tag.
>>
>> I'll go add it...
>
> It's not clear to me that Peter forgot it.

Yeah, it was an oversight. I was rushing to get the patch done because
I was embarrassed about breaking the build.

The kbuild test robot actually notified me first though :)

> Someone else brought this up -- it seems to me that
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches is a little too strong about needing
> permission to use Reported-by:
>
> If this patch fixes a problem reported by somebody else, consider adding a
> Reported-by: tag to credit the reporter for their contribution. Please
> note that this tag should not be added without the reporter's permission,
> especially if the problem was not reported in a public forum. That said,
> if we diligently credit our bug reporters, they will, hopefully, be
> inspired to help us again in the future.

I wish the Reported-by tag (and some others) was picked up by git send-email
automatically.

> Sure, if a problem was reported privately, then we need to have permission
> to use Reported-by, but if it was reported in a public forum, that should be
> implicit permission (IMHO).
>
> eh?

I agree.

Regards,
Peter Hurley



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