Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:07:17 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: trivial cleanup |
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:26PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 19:31 -0700, David Sharp wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > > Sorry, I know this is late, but it was pushed down in my todo list > > > (never off, but something I probably wouldn't have seen for a few more > > > months). > > > > > > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:46 -0700, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote: > > >> From: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> > > > > > > If this is from David it needs his SOB. > > > > Is that true even though we are working for the same company? > > > > Yes. > > I would never push a patch from Ingo without his Signed-off-by even > though he and I work for the same company ;-) > > Although, the GPL would let you. But it's best not to do it.
I'd say that it is even a no-no. The SOB chain denotes author - possible intermediary handler as in this case - committer and we all feel very strongly (I'm told :-)) about stating the exact origin and path upstream of every patch. So it is not only an authorship issue.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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