Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Add driver for EMC181x temperature sensors

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 15:10:32 EST


On 08/08/2023 09:54, Mathew McBride wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, at 5:38 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 08/08/2023 03:31, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
>>> This patch adds a HWMON driver for the EMC1812, EMC1813, EMC1814,
>>> EMC1815 and EMC1833 temperature sensor chips from microchip. Does not
>>> currently support the alert outputs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Co-developed-by: Mathew McBride <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mathew McBride <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The order of these tags is clearly not correct. It says Mathew is
>> sending, but you are not Mathew?
>
> Just to clarify, Mark has developed this version based off something I wrote a while ago:
>
> https://gitlab.com/traversetech/ls1088firmware/traverse-sensors/-/blob/master/emc181x/emc181x.c?ref_type=heads
>
> Hence my copyright is listed in the header.
>
> I advised him to list the authors in that order following the example in the kernel's "submitting patches" guide [2] which provides an example of such a situation:
>
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by

The last entry is:
Signed-off-by: From Author <from@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So it is expected to be Mark.

Best regards,
Krzysztof