Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] x86, olpc: add debugfs interface for EC commands | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:46 -0400 |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:07:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett said:
> If a previous author has given a Signed-off-by then they've clearly > indicated that their code is under an appropriate license and may be > submitted to the kernel. If someone else then takes that code, modifies > it and submits it then there's no obvious reason why we still need the > original Signed-off-by. Giving credit to the original author is > obviously appropriate, but I don't see why we need any more than that.
Conversely, if a maintainer does fixups on a patch while commiting it, we *don't* discard the original Signed-off-by. I'd say if somebody's submitting somebody else's patch, the chain should be:
signed-off-by: original author signed-off-by: the person who did the updates signed-off-by: <chain of maintainers heading upstream> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |