[ylyn]

No, that's not what "Reported-By" means. The kernel community has different conventions.

This entire HN comment section is ridiculous with everyone acting as if the author wrote an entire subsystem and someone else took attribution.

The author here figured out a bug and suggested a fix. It happens that they conmunicated their fix in the form of a patch, but that happens very regularly in kernel land.

In the end the author got a Reported-By, which is entirely appropriate for what happened. If the maintainer accepted the author's patch as-is or with minimal modification then yes, they should get Author attribution. But the patch that was taken was substantially different.

[jacquesm]

What is interesting about this whole thread is that apparently a whole raft of people are ready to string up the kernel maintainers for doing what they've been doing for years rather than to stop to question whether the first time contributor may have a communications issue or a different set of expectations than that which is the norm for a project that has been going for a couple of decades.

Weirder still because all of this has been done in the open for all of that time, it's not as if how the Linux kernel is maintained is a secret.

[JodieBenitez]

Questioning the consensus is how things evolve and hopefully progress.