Messages in this thread | | | Date | 25 May 2004 08:43:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission |
| |
torvalds@osdl.org (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 25.05.04 in <1ZBgK-68x-3@gated-at.bofh.it>:
> On Mon, 24 May 2004, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > > The wordy mix-case aspect is kind of annoying, and for > > all that we don't get to differentiate actions. > > I actually really really don't want to differentiate actions. There's > really no reason to try to separate things out, and quite often the > actions are mixed anyway. Besides, if they all end up having the same > technical meaning ("I have the right to pass on this patch") having > separate flags is just sure to confuse the process. > > So what I want is something _really_ simple. Something that is > unambigious, and cannot be confused with something else. And in > particular, I want that sign-off line to be "strange" enough that there is > no possibility of ever writing that line by mistake - so that it is clear > that the only reason anybody would write something like "Signed-off-by:" > is because it meant _that_ particular thing.
So it might be wise to add something approximately like this:
Signed-off-by: Random C Developer <rcd@example.net> For: Linux kernel
Sometimes, pieces wander from one project into another, and tracking that as well could possibly help.
MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |