Re: [PATCH v2] USB: serial: pl2303: Add IBM device IDs

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:24:51AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 09:15, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 08:52:29AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 08:25, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 04:44:46PM -0600, Eddie James wrote:
> > > > > IBM manufactures a PL2303 device for UPS communications. Add the vendor
> > > > > and product IDs so that the PL2303 driver binds to the device.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.ibm.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Changes since v1:
> > > > >  - Fix commit message Signed-off-by ordering.
> > > >
> > > > Almost there. You're still missing a Co-developed-by tag, a From line,
> > > > or both.
> > >
> > > It's neither. This patch was applied to a tree by myself, and I asked
> > > Eddie to send it to mainline for merging.
> >
> > Then you are missing a From line. As the patch looks like know, Eddie is
> > considered the author and not you.
> 
> You are incorrect. Eddie is the author.

Then what is your SoB doing there in the first place? If Eddie is the
sole author as well as the submitter, and you didn't touch the patch in
between, then your SoB does not belong in the chain. 

If you applied Eddie's patch to your shared tree and Eddie generated a
patch from there, then the chain should be:

	SoB: E
	SoB: J
	SoB: E

but this is starting to look a bit ridiculous.

Johan