On 01/09/2012 09:29 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > > > Best to include their signoffs, if possible. > > These patches are based in part on a bunch of different patches from > these people (for which I did receive signoffs). I was reluctant to put > their signoff directly on the new patches, since I didn't want to make > it look like they had submitted the patch in anything resembling its > current form. I wanted to give them credit for what they did, but not > blame for what I did with their code. >
Signoffs are for assigning neither credit nor blame, but for attributing authorship and affirming that a contributor has the right to contribute code or pass it along. Please read the DCO at https://lwn.net/Articles/437739/. It's okay to miss them from time to time, especially for established contributors, but avoid it whenever possible. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
