Re: [PATCH v3] NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation with pre-requisites for NTB

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Date: Fri Oct 12 2018 - 13:54:23 EST




On 2018-10-12 11:30 a.m., Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:33:08 +0800
> Wesley Sheng <wesleyshenggit@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The ntb_hw_switchtec driver has requirements on kernel configuration
>> so we add these notes to the documentation and also clean up a few
>> other sentences in the documentation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wesley Yung <wesley.yung@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kelvin Cao <kelvin.cao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Wesley Sheng <wesleyshenggit@xxxxxxxx>
>
> So why all of these signoffs for such a small patch? Who is the actual
> author of the patch?

It was originally two very small patches from Mr. Yung[1] and Mr. Cao[2]
combined and then cleaned up for upstream by Mr. Sheng.

There will likely be a bit more of this as they intend on upstreaming
more of the work that has been done out-of-tree. I believe most of this
is minor bug fixes and small feature additions.

Logan

[1]
https://github.com/Microsemi/switchtec-kernel/commit/5e7e7709c8ce6f37163113a8b6282aa4a788b6a0

[2]
https://github.com/Microsemi/switchtec-kernel/commit/e25fbb7267a742d08ca0802e0a6886c183e8b7b4