[darkhelmet]

That sort of thing still happens with FreeBSD, even recently. Find a kernel bug, spend days tracking it down and fixing it, contact a maintainer for feedback before submitting it, and then they slightly reformat it and commit as their own work.

[i_am_a_peasant]

Yeap, happened to me on FreeBSD, happened to me on NetBSD. With Linux it was better, I once had a Tested-by: given as well as a Reported-by: when I encountered some cgroup crashes.

The maintainer wrote a much more pertinent patch that I did, as I was not all that familiar with the subtle ways cgroups couple with a lot of other subsystems. I didn't care really about getting credit, whatever info he required of me I straight away gave, reproducer, .config, he was very polite, and I found the amount of credit I got for that fair.

On the other hand once I asked for a certain block layer patch to be included in Linux stable and Jens Axboe yelled at me asking me to stop spamming him. Boy that guy's a d*k.. I get it, you're briliant, io_uring is a great thing and we all love it, except for your weird naming conventions with the tail and head pointers for the circular buffers. But by the gods will I strive my best to be as not-like-you as possible if I become a big name on an open source project.