Re: [PATCH v3] staging: wilc1000: Use crc7 in lib/ rather than a private copy

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 11:40:28PM +0000, George Spelvin wrote:
> I understand that it's addressed more to patch authors than
> maintainers forwarding them, but I've read that thing a dozen times,
> and the description of S-o-b always seemed to be about copyright.
> 

It's to say that you didn't add anything which you shouldn't have, for
example, secret SCO UnixWare stuff.

> So I had assumed that edits which were below the de minimus standard
> of copyright didn't need a separate S-o-b.
> 
> Am I right that there should be an S-o-b from everyone from the
> patch author to the patch committer (as recorded in git)?  And the
> one exception is that we don't need S-o-b for git pulls after that,
> because the merge commits record the information?

Yes.  Also if people added their S-o-b for git merges it would change
the git hash for the patch which would suck.

regards,
dan carpenter