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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Explicitly state ordering requirements for Co-developed-by
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:37:57 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1903211537340.1784@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321142622.GA6519@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:30:10PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Hmm, and my experience is exclusively limited to contributing code to
> someone else's patches.  Rather than dictate exact ordering, what about
> deferring to standard sign-off procedure?
> 
> E.g.:
> 
>   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.  Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by a
>   Signed-off-by: of the co-author(s).  As per standard sign-off procedure, the
>   ordering of Co-developed-by:/Signed-off-by: pairs should reflect the patch's
>   handling insofar as possible.  Notably, the last Signed-off-by: must always be
>   that of the developer submitting the patch, regardless of whether they are the
>   original author or a co-author.

Yes, that makes sense.

Thanks,

	tglx


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-21 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-20 15:11 [PATCH] docs: Explicitly state ordering requirements for Co-developed-by Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 13:30 ` Jani Nikula
2019-03-21 14:26   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 14:37     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-03-21 15:00       ` Jani Nikula

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