From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754507Ab3ALWE4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:04:56 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35756 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754222Ab3ALWEz (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:04:55 -0500 Message-ID: <50F1DDE6.2020105@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:04:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Jan Kiszka , Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7u1 08/31] x86, 64bit: early #PF handler set page table References: <1357260531-11115-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1357260531-11115-9-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20130107155544.GD29449@x1.alien8.de> <20130110121922.GF23008@liondog.tnic> <20130110202740.GH23008@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130110202740.GH23008@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/10/2013 12:27 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> So at that time how can the Signed-off from them? >> >> And there are commits in the upstream does not have Signed-off from the Author. > > I certainly hope those are a very very small number, if any. > There are indeed a handful, at which point the first Signed-off-by: indicates that he, *based on his own first-hand knowledge* knows the author is intending and allowed to release this patch under the appropriate licensing term (see the Developer's Certificate of Origin document for the exact details.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.