Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:33:26 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the ceph tree |
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Hi Ilya,
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:21:52 +0300 Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sage: that ceph tree commit has no Signed-off-by from its > > committer :-( The same is true for almost all the commits in the ceph > > tree ... and the committer (Ilya) is not listed as a maintainer of that > > tree ... and its on github :-( > > Well, it has Signed-off-by from a person who is listed as a maintainer > of fs/ceph (Zheng). We share the same tree for three components: rbd > (drivers/block/rbd.c), cephfs (fs/ceph) and libceph (net/ceph) which is > used by both rbd and cephfs (we should probably split libceph into its > own MAINTAINERS entry). The volume of commits is not that high and > we prefer to not clutter our 30-40 commits per cycle with a bunch of > merges, so when one of us rebases the committer stamp gets wiped.
Then the person who rebases it must add a Signed-off-by line since they are then on the handling path from the author to Linus.
> As for github, is that a bad thing? ceph-client.git is certainly not > the only github tree in linux-next.
Yeah, it just means that I am a bit more suspicious of things there. You are *not* listed in my contacts for the ceph tree not are you listed in the MAINTAINERS file for that tree.
Also the tree listed in MAINTAINERS is:
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git
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