Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261727AbVEWO0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 10:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261733AbVEWO0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 10:26:11 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:34485 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261727AbVEWO0C (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 10:26:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Willy Tarreau cc: Alan Cox , Russell King , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip In-Reply-To: <20050523040905.GH18600@alpha.home.local> Message-ID: References: <200505220008.j4M08uE9025378@hera.kernel.org> <1116763033.19183.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050522135943.E12146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050522144123.F12146@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1116796612.5730.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1116800555.5744.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050523040905.GH18600@alpha.home.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 36 On Mon, 23 May 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Why not change this slightly to something like : > > DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Random J Developer > > which would imply that this person has read (and agreed with) version 1.1 ? This is one reason I wanted to avoid the 1.0->1.1 change. I think that if somebody really cares about the version, the above is certainly acceptable. In general, I'd personally not use it, and it seems pointless. If we make some _real_ changes to the DCO that really matter rather than the 1.0->1.1 thing that I'd consider "obvious clarifications", we'll probably have to change the sign-off. As it is, I think we should just make the change very public and let people know about it, and go with it, because quite frankly, even if somebody claims that they didn't know about the new version of the DCO, he'd have to be crazy to claim that he didn't know Linux was public and that the resulting sign-off is public too, so I see it as a "comfort level" thing, not anything fundamental. (And note that even the "comfort level" is not for the people doing the sign-off, but for the person _receiving_ the sign-off). Linus - 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/