Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] hwmon: (pmbus/vt7505) Add driver for Analog Devices MAX16545/MAX16550 and Volterra VT7505

On 7/24/26 12:42, Pradhan, Sanman wrote:
> From: Sanman Pradhan <[email protected]>
> 
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 10:53:36 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> I get delivery errors for the following addresses.
>>       [email protected]
>>       [email protected]
>>       [email protected]
>>
>> meaning they are quite obviously _not_ involved in the patch approval
>> path. Please drop those addresses. Also, per
>> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:
>>
>>    Any further SoBs (Signed-off-by:'s) following the author's SoB are
>>    from people handling and transporting the patch, but were not
>>    involved in its development. SoB chains should reflect the **real**
>>    route a patch took as it was propagated to the maintainers and
>>    ultimately to Linus, with the first SoB entry signalling primary
>>    authorship of a single author.
>>
>> Does the above SoB sequence really reflect the approval patch for this
>> patch ?
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> Just to clarify the sign-off history, this driver consolidates work
> from several internal commits developed by multiple contributors over a
> number of years. Each Signed-off-by line was carried over from the
> contributor's original commit, where they signed off on their own work
> I did not add any sign-offs on their behalf.
> 
> The contributions were roughly as follows:
> 
>    * Georgi Vlaev: original driver
>    * Dhruva Devineni: MAX16550 support
>    * Debjit Ghosh: MAX16545 support and device-specific data
>    * Santhanakrishnan Balraj: severe-OCP filter
>    * Avadhut Naik and JawaharBalaji Thirumalaisamy: device-tree probing
>    * Brian Mak: fixes
> 
> Some of these contributors have since left the company, so their
> juniper.net addresses now bounce. I've removed those addresses from
> the recipient list to avoid further delivery errors.
> 
> My intention in retaining the Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by lines
> was to preserve the original authorship and sign-off history. However,
> I'm happy to adjust the attribution chain if there is a preferred way
> to handle contributors whose email addresses are no longer active.
> 

Please only keep the Co-developed-by: lines, as per the guidance above.

Thanks,
Guenter