Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] ima: define and call ima_alloc_kexec_file_buf

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 10:04 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-02-20 at 09:53 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 14:54 -0800, steven chen wrote:
> [...
> > > Author: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>
> > 
> > Steven, thank you again for picking up this patch set.
> > 
> > As previously explained, there is no tag named "Author" in
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> > .  To give credit to the original author use "Co-developed-by".
> 
> Just on this, only use the co-developed-by if you actually *modified*
> the patch.  If you're just transmitting the patch unmodified you can
> give original author credit by including a 
> 
> From: original author <email>
> 
> Followed by a blank line at the beginning of the email.  That makes the
> git author field contan whatever the From: line says.  You still need a
> signoff from yourself in the original patch because you transmitted it.
> 
> Some people also consider minor modifications to be insufficient to
> disturb the original copyright ownership and simply document what they
> did in square brackets under their signoff, like this:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5d1e6ee761a109400e97ac6a1b91c57d0f6a43a

Originally I had said:

   > Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>
   > Signed-off-by: steven chen <chenste@linux.microsoft.com>

   Before the "Co-developed-by" tag was defined, it was implied simply by this ordering
   of the "Signed-off-by" tags.
   
   For those patches you didn't modify, simply import Tushar's patch with him as the
   author and add your Signed-off-by tag after his.

Thanks, James, for the explanation of using "From: original author <email>" to force the
author to be Tushar.

Mimi