From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:57:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver Message-Id: <20150409.135733.759772959057279248.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <5519D380.6070200@cogentembedded.com> <20150331064349.GB4605@localhost.localdomain> <873849cuox.fsf@nemi.mork.no> In-Reply-To: <873849cuox.fsf@nemi.mork.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: bjorn@mork.no Cc: richardcochran@gmail.com, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com, masaru.nagai.vx@renesas.com From: Bj=F8rn Mork Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:11:58 +0200 > Richard Cochran writes: >=20 >> The reason for the author's SOB is to make sure that he or she is >> really authorized (like from the employer) to contribute the driver. >=20 > I believe it is wise to stick to the definition of "Developer's > Certificate of Origin 1.1" from SubmittingPatches. I believe that, if the original author is not willing to sign off on code they wrote which is on it's way upstream, it's a good reason to be concerned. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:57:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150409.135733.759772959057279248.davem@davemloft.net> References: <5519D380.6070200@cogentembedded.com> <20150331064349.GB4605@localhost.localdomain> <873849cuox.fsf@nemi.mork.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: richardcochran@gmail.com, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, mitsuhiro.kimura.kc@renesas.com, masaru.nagai.vx@renesas.com To: bjorn@mork.no Return-path: In-Reply-To: <873849cuox.fsf@nemi.mork.no> Sender: linux-sh-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org =46rom: Bj=F8rn Mork Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:11:58 +0200 > Richard Cochran writes: >=20 >> The reason for the author's SOB is to make sure that he or she is >> really authorized (like from the employer) to contribute the driver. >=20 > I believe it is wise to stick to the definition of "Developer's > Certificate of Origin 1.1" from SubmittingPatches. I believe that, if the original author is not willing to sign off on code they wrote which is on it's way upstream, it's a good reason to be concerned.