Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/arm: Sync sysregs and cpuinfo with Linux 5.18-rc3

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bertrand,

On 11/05/2022 16:40, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> > On 11 May 2022, at 16:20, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Technically, speaking you only copied the code from Linux and therefore you are 
> > not the author of some of the changes.
> >
> > For such case, our general process is:
> Could you tell me where this process is described ?
The closest description I could find is:

https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/process/sending-patches.pandoc;h=7ff7826c992b68804b41cc4a8605329f7a10e44c;hb=HEAD#l75

> > 1) Backport the commit as-is (i.e the Author is the original Author)
> > 2) Add the tag Origin (recently introduced)
> > 3) Add your signed-off-by
> So following this theory, if we import a file from Linux we should list all the 
> people who contributed to it since it was created ?
Technically yes.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall