From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932991AbYEFUdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 16:33:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759590AbYEFUdc (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 16:33:32 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:43291 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758339AbYEFUdb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 16:33:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 22:25:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Daniel Walker cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper In-Reply-To: <1210091954.17132.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20080501173123.444094226@mvista.com> <1210091954.17132.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 May 2008, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 02:52 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > This is a little helper I pulled from the mips tree. > > ... > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker > > > > And who is the original author of this little helper in the MIPS tree? > > commit 16b7b2ac0148e839da86af8747b6fa4aad43a9b7 > Author: Atsushi Nemoto Wouldn't it be appropriate to assign the authorship in the usual form i.e.: From: Atsushi Nemoto on top of the patch and keep the original changelog message intact including the Signed-off-by of the author and Ralf ? Aside of the broken S-O-B chain this is a blatant usurpation of somebody else's work. You answered my question about the real author without hesitation, so I guess it was not your intention to claim authorship of someone else's work, but this is on the verge of plagiarism and might bring you into serious trouble. You should know the proper procedures by now and this is exactly the kind of sloppiness that you constantly show and what makes it almost impossible to do any cooperative work with you. Thanks, tglx