Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755511Ab3G2SaO (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:30:14 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:52381 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754942Ab3G2SaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:30:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:17:34 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Jason Cooper , Samuel Ortiz , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process Message-ID: <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com> References: <20130729102452.GA2682@zurbaran> <20130729113526.GB3604@zurbaran> <20130729130357.GQ29916@titan.lakedaemon.net> <3572404.Lna8dKdTsO@vostro.rjw.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3572404.Lna8dKdTsO@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 24 On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if > a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going to > be regarded as "suspicious" too now? > > And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull from > them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do > bad things on purpose? Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to merge commits either... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/