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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: bad commits in the security tree
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:09:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123040907.708bb4cc@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03bf91ac-1f20-1089-79dd-e342c9f610d9@schaufler-ca.com>

Hi Casey,

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:17:24 -0800 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/22/2016 2:58 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > I noticed that there are some commits in the security tree that have no
> > Signed-off-by from the committer (Casey Schaufler).
> >  
> My understanding is that patches I don't write should
> be Acked, not Signed-off when I commit them. If this is
> not correct I will address my misconduct.

If you are on the path of a patch to Linus, you need to sign off on the
patch according to the DCO - see section 11 of
Documentation/SubmittingPatches (or
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst where it has been moved
recently).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-22 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-22 10:58 linux-next: bad commits in the security tree Stephen Rothwell
2016-11-22 16:17 ` Casey Schaufler
2016-11-22 17:09   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]

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