Suggested-by: Gregory Rose <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
index 0ddd24502cc9..1755c8a6691a 100644
--- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,12 @@ Examples of common tags follow.
If the author and submitter are different, each must sign off. If the patch
has more than one author, all must sign off.
+ Signed-off-by tags should be the last tags in the commit message. If the
+ author (or authors) and submitter are different, the author tags should come
+ first. More generally, occasionally a patch might pass through a chain of
+ submitters, and in such a case the sign-offs should be arranged in
+ chronological order.
+
::
Signed-off-by: Author Name <[email protected]...>
--
2.16.1
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