Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752986Ab2HIU6b (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:58:31 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:37858 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751722Ab2HIU62 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:58:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1344545493-6820-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> References: <1344545493-6820-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:58:27 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VJ9PDJBl_IqqJcWC40a_1jZBu9g Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: clarify SOB tag usage when evolving submissions From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: 1753 Lines: 45 On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > of a second patch submission must supply their own Siged-off-by Signed-off-by > --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -366,6 +366,21 @@ and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances > can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one > which appears in the changelog. > > +If you are submitting a large change (for example a new driver) at times > +you may be asked to make quite a lot of modifications prior to getting > +your change accepted. At times you may even receive patches from developers > +who not only wish to tell you what you should change to get your changes > +upstream but actually send you patches. If those patches were made publicly > +and they do contain a Singed-off-by tag you are not expected to provide Signed-off-by > +their own Singed-off-by tag on the second iteration of the patch so long idem > +as there is a public record somewhere that can be used to show the > +contributor had sent their changes with their own Singed-off-by tag. ditto Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/