From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753442Ab1KACaK (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:30:10 -0400 Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:16978 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752462Ab1KACaI (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:30:08 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6516"; a="132633270" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <093448$3uek00@wolverine01.qualcomm.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/36] Hexagon: Add support for Qualcomm Hexagon architecture From: rkuo@codeaurora.org To: "Linus Torvalds" Cc: "Richard Kuo" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Linas Vepstas" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Richard Kuo wrote: >> >> Please let me know if there's anything else you require of these >> patches. > > So there's something odd going on with the Sign-off's, which makes me > unhappy. It also makes me wonder if the authorship is properly > attributed. > > Some of these things are signed off by Linas Vepstas. In fact, some of > them are *only* signed off on by him, not by you. Which is definitely > wrong. But it makes me wonder if the authorship is buggered up, and > those patches maybe should have a "From: Linas Vepstas > " on them too. > > Example of this: "[PATCH v5 12/36] Hexagon: Export ksyms defined in > assembly files." (but 13/36, 31/36 and 36/36 were that way too). > > Others are signed off by both Linas Vepstas and you, but in an odd > order. Since you're sending them to me, I'd expect your sign-off to be > last, but it isn't. So the sign-off sequence makes it look like they > were sent by Linas, even though I got them from you. > > So I'd like some clarification on this, and I do need *your* sign-off > on them all since you're sending them to me. > > You don't have to re-send, but you do have to explain whether perhaps > Linas should be author (and why the odd order of sign-offs) and > basically do a "yeah, I sign off on those patches" with a full listing > of the patches in question so that I have it for the record. > > Linus > OK, my mistake on these. Linas did author those patches, but clearly I'm in their path. So, I sign off on: [PATCH v5 12/36] Hexagon: Export ksyms defined in assembly files. [PATCH v5 13/36] Hexagon: Support dynamic module loading. [PATCH v5 31/36] Hexagon: kgdb support files [PATCH v5 36/36] Add extra arch overrides to asm-generic/checksum.h Many other times, I was the author, and Linas also had contributions to the files as well, but again, if they're coming through me, my signed-off should be last. The From: is me because I imported all the files into git from what we were doing previously. The rest of the patches from now on should have proper authorship. Thanks, Richard Kuo