Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | [PATCH] docs: Explicitly state ordering requirements for Co-developed-by | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:11:40 -0700 |
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Per Thomas' yet-to-be-merged "tip tree handbook"[1], Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by must be paired together, i.e. the co-authors' SOB mustn't be scattered willy-nilly, and the author's SOB must be the first SOB *after* the last Co-developed-by/Signed-off-by pair. Provide an example to eliminate any ambiguity.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171149.165693799@linutronix.de
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index be7d1829c3af..f4b5c4850601 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -547,8 +547,13 @@ have been included in the discussion. A Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple people -work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to have a Signed-off-by: -line in the patch as well. +work on a single patch. Note, Co-developed-by: must be accompanied by a +Signed-off-by: of the co-author(s). All Co-developed-by:/Signed-off-by: pairs +must precede the Signed-off-by: of the original author. + + Co-developed-by: Random Co-Author <random@coauthor.example.org> + Signed-off-by: Random Co-Author <random@coauthor.example.org> + Signed-off-by: Original Author <original@author.example.org> 13) Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes: -- 2.21.0
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