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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by DSingularity on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:45AM (#37672419)
If you can’t empathize that says a lot about you.

At the very least the maintainer could have modified the submitted patch and thus granted co-authorship to the submitter.

Who knows — maybe the maintainer is a narcissist who couldn’t accept patches for his own broken code.

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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by yencabulator on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:25PM (#37684454)
There was no Signed-off-by in the initial submission, using that code was literally not allowed.

https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patche...

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