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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:29:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/35] ssb: Change PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL to 0
To:     Saheed Bolarinwa <refactormyself@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:13 PM Saheed Bolarinwa
<refactormyself@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/20 7:16 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> > Why is your name inside quotes in your s-o-b?
> >
> To keep me company before I get to know my way within the kernel.
>
> I saw people with >2 names do it, so I did! Please let me know if it is odd.

It's required for a proper email header if you have a dor (.) in your cleartext
name, but it is not required in a Signed-off-by tag, though a number of people
still do it out of habit. I'm sure it's fine either way.

     Arnd