From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757442Ab0IHGuM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:50:12 -0400 Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:43940 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753399Ab0IHGuF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:50:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8731D2.1030002@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:48:50 +0800 From: Tao Ma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Mark Fasheh , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ocfs2 fixes for 2.6.36. References: <20100907234114.GD21935@mail.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On 09/08/2010 10:19 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Joel Becker wrote: >> >> Here are the ocfs2 fixes we have ready for pulling right now. I >> have a bit of a procedural question, though. I've been busy, so Tao was >> kind enough to take the fixes I already had and apply all the new fixes. >> He coordinated testing them and getting them ready to go upstream. >> That's why I have his git tree in the pull request below. >> I wasn't sure how the signoffs work for this. He's got signoffs >> on the stuff he put together, because it's coming through his tree. My >> naive assumption is that this is the correct way to go. > > The sign-off chain should basically stretch from the author to the > committer - so a good sign-off chain is one where the first sign-off > matches the author of the commit, and the last sign-off matches the > committer, and the ones in the middle are obviously the path it took > from one to the other. > > However, Tao has *NOT* added sign-offs to the patches he's taken. I > didn't look at all of them, but the first few commits are all authored > (and signed off on - so far so good) by Mark Fasheh, but there is no > sign-off for Tao. So the sign-off chain is clearly not complete. sorry for the trouble. This is the first time for me to collect patches for a mainline upstream. So I have added my sign-off to all the patches whose author isn't me to indicate that I am the committer. Hope it works. please pull git://oss.oracle.com/git/tma/linux-2.6.git fixes REgards, Tao