> Even if this were true, it does absolutely nothing to change the fact that his motivation was to fix the bug he was experiencing at work.

Sure, but this blog post was written well after that time, and I do not see the OP aiming to be properly credited in the intermediary. That doesn't mean that a more appropriate tag could have been used, I just wonder about the motivations for the post because it clearly isn't either timely or the best venue to address this, especially not in the way in which it was done.

> You are failing to distinguish between the purpose for doing something and something of value. These are two distinct things. The goal was to fix the bug. The credit is of value. The fact that he is upset about not receiving the value he feels he deserves does not alter what the goal was.

Yes, and that's why I'm totally supportive of having a 'Suggested-by' or even a 'Co-authored-by' tag on this. But I'm also aware of the fact that the LKML record alone serves to document the OPs contribution and that nobody has made any claim to the contrary, he is - to all intents and purposes except for the git-log the contributor of some lines of code. That these were modified by the maintainer is something people normally would not have cared that much about. And maybe that should change, but that's so far been roughly the norm for these kind of fixes.

> It’s straightforward and obvious that he fixed a bug because it was affecting him. Why are you so eager to deny that?

Because of (1) the timing, (2) the misrepresentations in the post, (3) the fact that alternative venues were not sought before making some fairly heavy accusations. It looks to me as though the bug fix may originally have been the reason the work was done and maybe the OP or their employer were happy with it but now, so many months later it seems the OP is more focused on the credit.