From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753173AbcKSRjV (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:39:21 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:46620 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752907AbcKSRjT (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:39:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:39:16 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Chao Fan Cc: , , , , , Cao Jin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change the document about iowait Message-ID: <20161119103916.3a562069@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20161114034241.GA16830@localhost.localdomain> References: <1477449688-19397-1-git-send-email-fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> <20161113084755.0eeb4ad4@lwn.net> <20161114034241.GA16830@localhost.localdomain> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:42:41 +0800 Chao Fan wrote: > >Sorry for the delay on this. Life has been...challenging... > > > >> Signed-off-by: Cao Jin > >> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan > > > >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