From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753378AbdBTMbX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:31:23 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:37928 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753061AbdBTMbR (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:31:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:30:51 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Reshetova, Elena" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "Luck, Tony" , "hpa@zytor.com" , Hans Liljestrand , Kees Cook , David Windsor Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t Message-ID: <20170220123051.ioox335zkcgt672s@pd.tnic> References: <1487588781-15123-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <1487588781-15123-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <20170220111727.7vohleiu2btmsx3g@pd.tnic> <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B41C4D921@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B41C4D921@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:20:04PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > Whole refcount conversion was a long piece of work and the above > people contributed to this code either as writes or reviewers or both. We have Reviewed-by: for reviewers. > I am primary writer of the code and I am handing patches in our tree > and sending them out, so how exactly the above should look like? Well, the SOB chain should reflect who handled the patch on its way from the original author to the upstream committer. If you want to express who contributed, you can use Originally-by, Suggested-by, ... You could also have free text in the commit message: "People who contributed to this: ..." In any case, it is all in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Have a look. > Please note that we have about 300 patches and if I have to modify > each sign-off to reflect who contributed to each commit in what > particular way, I will go insane. There's sed/awk/perl/python/bash... whatever tools that can do the proper conversions with. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:30:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: convert threshold_bank.cpus from atomic_t to refcount_t Message-Id: <20170220123051.ioox335zkcgt672s@pd.tnic> List-Id: References: <1487588781-15123-1-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <1487588781-15123-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com> <20170220111727.7vohleiu2btmsx3g@pd.tnic> <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B41C4D921@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612B41C4D921@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Reshetova, Elena" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "Luck, Tony" , "hpa@zytor.com" , Hans Liljestrand , Kees Cook , David Windsor On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:20:04PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > Whole refcount conversion was a long piece of work and the above > people contributed to this code either as writes or reviewers or both. We have Reviewed-by: for reviewers. > I am primary writer of the code and I am handing patches in our tree > and sending them out, so how exactly the above should look like? Well, the SOB chain should reflect who handled the patch on its way from the original author to the upstream committer. If you want to express who contributed, you can use Originally-by, Suggested-by, ... You could also have free text in the commit message: "People who contributed to this: ..." In any case, it is all in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Have a look. > Please note that we have about 300 patches and if I have to modify > each sign-off to reflect who contributed to each commit in what > particular way, I will go insane. There's sed/awk/perl/python/bash... whatever tools that can do the proper conversions with. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.