On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 06:49:25AM +0000, Ren, Cloud wrote: > > Please calm down. I will follow rule of sending email from now on. Sorry for > causing > your trouble. Luis has ever asked joe for adding as a Signed-off-by. At that > time joe agreed > with it. If joe prefers his name not be listed as a Signed-off-by, I will > respect his decision. > alx driver is innocent. Please help review. Thanks
I'm curious, did Luis ask on list or off? When I ask someone for a Signed-off-by tag, I always ask them to post it to the list, even when they have given it to me privately. I like others to see that someone explicitly gave me their permission, as I would never add a Signed-off tag for someone else. The Signed-off tag has some legal bindings (all other tags are for credit/info only). It is that person saying that the changes they made to a patch are theirs and are giving the right to distribute it. It is also used by those that take the changes and insert it into the repository. >From Documentation/SubmittingPatches: The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. Joe, If you actually modified part of the code in the patch, you do have the right to add a signed-off-by tag. If you just made suggestions or reviewed, then a 'Suggested-by' or 'Reviewed-by' tag would be more appropriate. The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
