From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.com>
To: Blake <blake@truealter.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: coding-assistants: add optional Acted-By: trailer
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:57:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f002882-e584-4491-9c12-11822645cd26@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IF6AC3bPCYsGyyxsgSQlwZXnA3BJJh61OW6a3KznzbsmDPG4DtricBAzsxyOjDQZ-RHBEkgsjRdaVKQ6i8gqv1bd2AGwC0BTJwBErNHOqx4=@truealter.com>
On 4/21/26 03:04, Blake wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at 3:40 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> I really do not understand, how would this actually be used?
>> And as you have to have a signed-off-by, why would you use two
>> different names for yourself this way?
>
> Signed-off-by and Acted-By answer different questions. Signed-off-by
> requires a real name for DCO attestation.
AFAIU that's an outdated claim. See:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-21 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-20 14:27 [PATCH] Documentation: coding-assistants: add optional Acted-By: trailer Blake Morrison
2026-04-20 17:40 ` Greg KH
2026-04-21 1:04 ` Blake
2026-04-21 7:57 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2026-04-21 15:14 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-04-22 7:48 ` Blake
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