Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754845Ab3GaFsQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:48:16 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40157 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754349Ab3GaFsO (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:48:14 -0400 Message-ID: <51F8A4F3.4020003@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:47:31 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: "John W. Linville" , LKML , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linus Torvalds , Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process References: <20130729102452.GA2682@zurbaran> <3572404.Lna8dKdTsO@vostro.rjw.lan> <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com> <4053222.hWzinV5Hra@vostro.rjw.lan> In-Reply-To: <4053222.hWzinV5Hra@vostro.rjw.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1384 Lines: 33 On 07/29/2013 03:30 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 29, 2013 02:17:34 PM John W. Linville wrote: >> 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... > > An SOB in the merge doesn't provide any additional information that can't > be retrieved from git, unless you use a different e-mail address for the > sign-off. :-) > Watch out for fast forward merges. Ideally I guess maintainers really should disable fast forwards and PGP-sign their merge commits... -hpa -- 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/