Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753225AbcCRFbq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:31:46 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f49.google.com ([209.85.213.49]:33694 "EHLO mail-vk0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750895AbcCRFbh (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:31:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20160314235035.GA5799@localhost.localdomain> <1457999823.11972.143.camel@perches.com> <20160315112458.7248d665@canb.auug.org.au> <20160315130339.688689bd@canb.auug.org.au> <20160315151618.GQ29218@thunk.org> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:31:36 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v4.6] MDB Linux Kernel Debugger x86/x86_64 From: Jeffrey Merkey To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Stephen Rothwell , Jeffrey Merkey , Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kbuild Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1404 Lines: 36 On 3/16/16, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > On 3/15/16, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:03:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> We don't generally PGP (GPG) sign commits in the kernel tree (so "-S" >>> is not required), just tags. However we always require that anyone who >>> handles a patch adds a Signed-off-by line to the final commit. See >>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches Section 11. >> >> In general all commits should have a Signed-Off-By line added. Once >> the git branch gets merged, it's hard to tell what is the final commit >> and what isn't, and in general different commits will have different >> people needing to vouch for the origins for the contents of that commit. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Ted >> >> > > Hi Ted, > > I will repost this pull request with a signed-off by line for Linus to > consider. I am not certain who all should be included in the review > and I have to be careful how many email recipients I copy. I will > post to the folks Joe Perches copied. > > Jeff > Well, Joe updated checkpatch.pl so now there are some more areas of cleanup I need to do on the code to remove unsigned casts and replace them with unsigned int. I will resubmit at the next merge window for 4.7. Have not heard a word from Linus about this, Hey Linus, please don't lion-us by throwing us to the lions. :-) Jeff