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SubjectRe: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the scsi tree
Hi James,

On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:41:36 -0700 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
>  The rule, I believe, is that only the person who transforms the email
> to a git tree should be the last signoff in the commit log, even if
> they're a tree pulling into another one and thereafter the signoffs go
> in the merge commit, so the signoff sent by me in the signed tag when I
> send the main tree to Linus is my signoff for transmitting all the
> commits, which includes the rebased ones in this instance.

According to Linus:

"Rebasing really is pretty much the exact same thing as
applying a patch."

And so should have a Signed-off-by from the committer.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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