[PATCH 0/14] staging/media/as102: new driver submission (was Re: [PATCH 1/7] Staging submission: PCTV 74e driver (as102)

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em 19-10-2011 09:41, Javier Martinez Canillas escreveu:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Piotr Chmura <chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:52:17 -0400
>> Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Piotr Chmura <chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for comments for all of you.
>>>>
>>>> [PATCH 1-12/14] Following your guidelines i exported all changes from hg one by one. This way we will have all history in kernel tree.
>>>> I moved driver to staging/media and removed Kconfig/Makefile changes in parent directory in first patch.
>>>
>>> Hello Piotr,
>>>
>>> Not that I want to create more work for you, but it would appear that
>>> your patches stripped off all the Signed-off-by lines for both myself
>>> and Pierrick Hascoet (the developer from the hardware vendor).  You
>>> have replaced them with "cc:" lines, which breaks the chain of
>>> "Developer's Certificate of Origin".
>>>
>>> When you take somebody else's patches, you need to preserve any
>>> existing Signed-off-by lines, adding your own at the bottom of the
>>> list.
>>>
>>> In other words, the first patch should be:
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet at abilis.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Piotr Chmura <chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl>
>>>
>>> instead of:
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Piotr Chmura <chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl>
>>> Cc: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet at abilis.com>
>>> Cc: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com>
>>>
>>> Devin
>>>
>>> --
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>>> http://www.kernellabs.com
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>>
>> Ok, i'll resend them again.
>>
>> Should I replay to every patch with something like [RESEND PATCH nn/mm]..., right ?
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> A common convention is to add the version of your patch in the subject like:
> 
> [PATCH v2 0/14] staging/media/as102: new driver submission
> 
> That way people can know that is actually a resend of a new patch-set
> and not a resend of the last one.

Yes. Also, it seems that you've submitted only 12 patches of this 14 patch
series. Where are the other two missing patches?

> 
> Anything that is between your Signed-off and the diff get trimmed by
> Git when applying a patch (that is why Devin and Pierrick Signed-off
> where stripped in first place). So you can add information about the
> changes there. Something like:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet at abilis.com>
> Signed-off-by: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com>
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Chmura <chmooreck at poczta.onet.pl>
> ----
> 
> v2:  preserve any existing Signed-off-by lines so it doesn't get
> stripped when applied.
> 
> diff -Nur linux.clean/drivers/staging/as102/as102_drv.c
> linux.as102_initial/drivers/staging/as102/as102_drv.c
> --- linux.clean/drivers/staging/as102/as102_drv.c	1970-01-01
> 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux.as102_initial/drivers/staging/as102/as102_drv.c	2011-10-14
> 17:55:02.000000000 +0200
> @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
> +/*
> + * Abilis Systems Single DVB-T Receiver
> + * Copyright (C) 2008 Pierrick Hascoet<pierrick.hascoet at xxxxxxxxxx>
> + * Copyright (C) 2010 Devin Heitmueller<dheitmueller at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hope it helps,
>