On 3/16/16, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/15/16, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 01:03:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: >>> We don't generally PGP (GPG) sign commits in the kernel tree (so "-S" >>> is not required), just tags. However we always require that anyone who >>> handles a patch adds a Signed-off-by line to the final commit. See >>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches Section 11. >> >> In general all commits should have a Signed-Off-By line added. Once >> the git branch gets merged, it's hard to tell what is the final commit >> and what isn't, and in general different commits will have different >> people needing to vouch for the origins for the contents of that commit. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Ted >> >> > > Hi Ted, > > I will repost this pull request with a signed-off by line for Linus to > consider. I am not certain who all should be included in the review > and I have to be careful how many email recipients I copy. I will > post to the folks Joe Perches copied. > > Jeff >
Well, Joe updated checkpatch.pl so now there are some more areas of cleanup I need to do on the code to remove unsigned casts and replace them with unsigned int. I will resubmit at the next merge window for 4.7. Have not heard a word from Linus about this, Hey Linus, please don't lion-us by throwing us to the lions. :-) Jeff
