From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264352AbUEYGc2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 02:32:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264779AbUEYGc2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 02:32:28 -0400 Received: from dci.doncaster.on.ca ([66.11.168.194]:28853 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264352AbUEYGc0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 02:32:26 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 02:32:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Kernel Mailing List References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405250232.29103.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On Sunday 23 May 2004 02:46, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This basically allows people to sign off on other peoples patches, as long > as they see that the previous entry in the chain has been signed off on. Does that mean that when the submission arrives at your end it's supposed to have a whole list of Signed-off-bys, one for each person who handled the patch? Or is it only supposed to have one Signed-off-by, as close to the original author as possible? Or one Signed-off-by with multiple upstream emails on it? Regards, Daniel