Re: [PATCH 5/8] clk: qcom: support for duplicate freq in RCG2 freq table

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 13:09:05 EST


> > > Change-Id: I97d9e1b55d8f3ee095f6f01729af527ba90e50e5
> > > Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sahu <absahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > (cherry picked from commit 775e7d3b69ffc97afb5bd5a6c9c423f2f4d8a0b2)
> > > Signed-off-by: Praveenkumar I <ipkumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Change-Id: If10193fc79a3c1375ab73597813745ff1f4df0ad
> > >
> > > Pick from https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/qsdk/oss/kernel/linux-ipq-5.4/-/commit/6dfb368bae130bee58e00ddf8330b55066e1c8c5
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ziyang Huang <hzyitc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Please clean up these tags. These Change-ID tags are meaningless in
> > mainline. 775e7d3b69ffc97afb5bd5a6c9c423f2f4d8a0b2 is not in mainline
> > either. The picked from might be interesting, but please put it into
> > the body of the commit message, not mixed in with the tags.
> >
> > Who actually wrote this patch? The first Signed-off-by: is from
> > Abhishek Sahu. But you have a From of Praveenkumar I ?
>
> I have no idea about this. This patch is from Qualcomm vendor linux code.

O.K. Since this is direct from the vendor, who probably does not track
code authorship correctly, i would say the author in git is probably
wrong. I would set the author: to Abhishek Sahu <absahu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

> What's more, I don't known how to deal with these commit message since I'm
> not the author and I'm not sure do I have right to edit them even though
> this is GPL code.

You should keep all the Signed-off-by, in the order they are. But the
Change-Id is meaningless, so there is no problem removing them.

Andrew