Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commits in the staging tree

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 09:44:44AM +0100, Christian Gromm wrote:
> On 28.11.2017 20:41, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:16:51AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > Commits
> > > 
> > >    2525ef557c73 ("staging: most: update driver usage file")
> > >    e7e3ce04588c ("staging: most: core: fix list traversing")
> > > 
> > > are missing a Signed-off-by from their author.
> > 
> > Ugh, I missed that.  Christian, please be more careful.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, am I missing something here? I have it in.
> Here are copies of the patches in question and both have
> a "Signed-off-by" line in.
> 
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> From: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> CC: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Andrey Shvetsov
> <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de>, Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 48/50] staging: most: core: fix list traversing
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:05:22 +0100
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> From: Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de>
> This patch fixes the offset and data handling when traversing
> the list of devices that are attached to the bus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/core.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/core.c b/drivers/staging/most/core.c
> index d03ff97..9729206 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/core.c
> @@ -535,10 +535,16 @@ static struct core_component *match_component(char
> *name)
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> 
> +struct show_links_data {
> +	int offs;
> +	char *buf;
> +};
> +
>  int print_links(struct device *dev, void *data)
>  {
> -	int offs = 0;
> -	char *buf = data;
> +	struct show_links_data *d = data;
> +	int offs = d->offs;
> +	char *buf = d->buf;
>  	struct most_channel *c;
>  	struct most_interface *iface = to_most_interface(dev);
> 
> @@ -560,13 +566,16 @@ int print_links(struct device *dev, void *data)
>  					 dev_name(&c->dev));
>  		}
>  	}
> +	d->offs = offs;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static ssize_t links_show(struct device_driver *drv, char *buf)
>  {
> -	bus_for_each_dev(&mc.bus, NULL, buf, print_links);
> -	return strlen(buf);
> +	struct show_links_data d = { .buf = buf };
> +
> +	bus_for_each_dev(&mc.bus, NULL, &d, print_links);
> +	return d.offs;
>  }
> 
>  static ssize_t components_show(struct device_driver *drv, char *buf)
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 
> and
> 
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> From: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> CC: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Andrey Shvetsov
> <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de>, Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 44/50] staging: most: update driver usage file
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> From: Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de>
> 
> This patch keeps the usage file up to date.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
> ---

Why is there no signed-off-by from Andrey?