Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:21:17 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: make trap information available to die handlers |
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On St 09-11-05 09:20:25, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 08.11.05 18:13:28 >>> > >On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > >> >And the patch (attachment) also contains From:, but it's missing > >> >a Signed-off-by: line. > >> > >> I looked at many ChangeLog entries (which supposedly get created > from > >> the abstract), and by far not all of them have the author listed > both as > >> From: and Singed-Off-By:, which made me think that either of the > two > >> should be sufficient (and I really can't see why the author > information > >> needs to appear twice). > > > >Tools can determined the From: part from your email, so it's > >often safe to omit that part. > > > >The S-o-b part is required... > > Strange. Andi Kleen specifically asked me to add From: to my patches... > And I still can't see why the author of a patch wouldn't implicitly sign > off on it.
Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches. s-o-b: means that patch is GPL.
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