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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>
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On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 08:16:28PM +0000, Sunil Muthuswamy wrote:
> > What is this SoB chain supposed to say?
> 
> Quoting from the link you shared:
> "The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the development of
> the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path."
> 
> My intent to include Boqun in the Signed-off by tag was to indicate that he was involved
> in the development of the patch here.

Do you see "Co-developed-by" in the title of that section? This is how
you express co-authorship.

As it is now:

Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng (Microsoft) <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

it says that you authored the patch and Boqun handled it further, i.e.,
he's in the patch's delivery path. But he isn't - you're sending it.

HTH.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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