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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:13:27AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:41 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Ok, but what happens if all 2000+ different companies start adding their
> > fields to the signed-off-by: area of the kernel for their internal
> > tracking systems?
> 
> That's been happening for a long time; there have been kernel patches
> referencing LTC, RHEL, and SLES bugzilla entries; many of those
> bug entries are not public so as not to reveal customer confidential
> information.   I've never seen anyone complain about that before.

But none of them are on the Signed-off-by: line area, right?

Also, putting it in the text of the changelog, with a url, is fine.  And
it had better be a public url, otherwise it makes no sense at all.  I've
seen many public SUSE and Ubuntu urls in changelog entries, any
non-public ones should not be in there at all.

Just like with gerrit ids in signed-off-by areas, references to internal
bugzilla entries, in the signed-off-by area, should not be there at all.

greg k-h