On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 13:27 -0700, York Sun wrote: > > On 03/19/2015 01:06 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 13:02 -0700, York Sun wrote: > >> > >> On 03/19/2015 12:58 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 12:54 -0700, York Sun wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 03/19/2015 12:52 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 18:14 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 04:45:48PM +0000, York Sun wrote: > >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> > >>>>> > >>>>> York, where's your signoff since you're the one submitting the patch? > >>>> > >>>> I am sending many patches in this set. Since I didn't contribute to this > >>>> patch, > >>>> I didn't add my signed-off-by. > >>> > >>> That's not what signed-off-by means. I realize (though never understood > >>> why) the U-Boot project differs from Linux rules in terms of whether > >>> custodians are expected to sign off patches when applying, but does that > >>> extend to submitting patches by e-mail as well? > >>> > >> > >> I don't have the answer myself. I haven't added any of my signed-off-by > >> for the > >> patches I squashed/tested/sent. For small patch set, I would request the > >> original author to send each patch. For large set with dependency, I send > >> patch > >> on behalf of the authors. I don't want to take credit for the patch I > >> didn't > >> contribute the change. I test all of them though. > > > > The From: line is for giving credit. Signed-off-by shows the path the > > patch took. Plus, leaving your name off puts all the blame on the > > author, when they weren't the ones who decided the patch was ready to > > submit. :-) > > > > When multiple patches are squashed, I put authors' name in signed-off-by. For > this reason, I think adding my signoff will be confusing.
If there are multiple authors you can give credit with an explicit statement in the changelog. > But I agree with you that I should have my name somewhere for the patches I > sent. Doesn't the email "from" qualify? The email "from" doesn't go in the git history. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot