Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755303Ab2JLGHX (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:07:23 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:32984 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750823Ab2JLGHW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:07:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:07:17 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Steven Rostedt Cc: David Sharp , Vaibhav Nagarnaik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: trivial cleanup Message-ID: <20121012060717.GB9881@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Steven Rostedt , David Sharp , Vaibhav Nagarnaik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1339112785-21806-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com> <1350007016.24256.82.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1350009746.24256.84.camel@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1350009746.24256.84.camel@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1357 Lines: 35 On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:26PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:31 -0700, David Sharp wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Sorry, I know this is late, but it was pushed down in my todo list > > > (never off, but something I probably wouldn't have seen for a few more > > > months). > > > > > > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:46 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote: > > >> From: David Sharp > > > > > > If this is from David it needs his SOB. > > > > Is that true even though we are working for the same company? > > > > Yes. > > I would never push a patch from Ingo without his Signed-off-by even > though he and I work for the same company ;-) > > Although, the GPL would let you. But it's best not to do it. I'd say that it is even a no-no. The SOB chain denotes author - possible intermediary handler as in this case - committer and we all feel very strongly (I'm told :-)) about stating the exact origin and path upstream of every patch. So it is not only an authorship issue. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/