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From:   Stephen Zhang <starzhangzsd@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:52:05 +0800
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Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the xfs tree
To:     Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
        linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Shida Zhang <zhangshida@kylinos.cn>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> =E4=BA=8E2022=E5=B9=B410=E6=9C=885=E6=97=
=A5=E5=91=A8=E4=B8=89 05:06=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A
> As it is, I use the convention of putting an explicit From: tag in
> the commit message that matches the SOB so tools pulling stuff from
> mailing lists do the right thing with them (same as any third-party
> provided patch in a series).
>
> > That said... I think we should get in the habit of asking patch authors
> > to make sure that at least one of the email or name strings match
> > between the From and SOB tags.  I can see how people who grok even less
> > about how Chinese names work than I do (read: lawyers) might get fussy
> > about this kind of thing.
>
> As per above, the normal solution is an explicit "From: <foo>" line
> that matches the SOB.  It's just annoying that our new-fangled tools
> haven't encoded this long-standing convention to warn us when we
> pull a patch with a from-tag that doesn't match a sob-tag.
>

Sorry, but I'm not sure whether what you mean is adding another "From: " li=
ne
right above the SOB tag like:
=3D=3D=3D=3D
From: name2 <email address2>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 xx:xx:xx +0800
Subject: [PATCH ] xfs: fix xxx and xxx

...
the commit  message
...

From: name <email address>             //added line
signed-off-by:  name <email address>
...
=3D=3D=3D=3D

Thanks,
Stephen.