From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<peterz@infradead.org>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
<izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>, Cao Jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change the document about iowait
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:39:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161119103916.3a562069@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161114034241.GA16830@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:42:41 +0800
Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >Sorry for the delay on this. Life has been...challenging...
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Cao Jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >
> >What does this signoff chain mean?
>
> Hi jon,
>
> I made this patch. He is my colleague who helped me a lot on
> investigating why this value decrease, so I added his s-o-b.
> I didn't know how to put the position, but both of us are
> responsible for this patch. Should I change and resend it?
The meaning of Signed-off-by is defined in the DOC, as seen in
Documentation/submitting-patches.rst. In this case, the better approach
would have been to credit Cao Jin in the changelog, since he didn't write
the patch.
For a little documentation tweak like this it's not that big a deal,
though, so I simply gone ahead and applied it.
Thanks,
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-19 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 2:41 [PATCH] Change the document about iowait Chao Fan
2016-11-09 1:33 ` Chao Fan
2016-11-13 15:47 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-11-14 3:42 ` Chao Fan
2016-11-19 17:39 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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