Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exec: fix breakpoint_invalidate() breakage

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 05/24/2012 01:12 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 24.05.2012 15:35, schrieb Andreas Färber:
>> Am 24.05.2012 04:12, schrieb TeLeMan:
>>> I won't use
>>> my Chinese name because I think it's my privacy.
>>
>> That exactly is touching the core point: Signed-off-by is about
>> transparency and taking responsibility for your actions, not hiding in
>> anonymity. It's a certification of whom the code came from and who would
>> be to blame if anything was wrong with that (think non-GPL-compatible
>> code taken from somewhere else).
>>
>> Why should you be granted more privacy than us just because your name is
>> Chinese? There's quite a few Chinese IBM guys around that don't seem to
>> have any problem with this, and git would even handle UTF-8 characters
>> quite well if desired[*].
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> [*] For example,
>>
>> commit e965fc380703110e967febf8d5b2ecd7db53b5d2
>> Author: 陳韋任<chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>
>> Date: Mon Feb 6 14:02:55 2012 +0800
>>
>> cpu-exec.c: Correct comment about this file and indentation cleanup
>>
>> Each target uses the #define macro (in target-xxx/cpu.h) to rename
>> cpu_exec (cpu-exec.c) to cpu_xxx_exec, then defines its own cpu_loop
>> which calls cpu_xxx_exec. So basically, cpu-exec.c is not only the i386
>> emulator main execution loop. This patch corrects the comment of this
>> file and does indentation cleanup.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Wei-Ren (陳韋任)<chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi<stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> This discussion looks strange for me.

I'm not going to commit patches with a Signed-off-by if I know the name is an alias.

DCO requires the use of a real name.  DCO is an important part of ensuring the 
pedigree of a code base just like copyright licensing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori