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On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:57 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 14:51 -0800, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> > Thank you for the explanation. BTW where can I find official rules about signed-off-by line
> 
> The "Signed-off-by" idiom originated with the kernel people and
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the linux source tree contains a
> fairly good description of what it means to them.
> 
> I'm not sure that there are any official rules about its use in OE apart
> from what's in the Commit Patch Message Guidelines (see the wiki).

The yocto docs do mention what the specific meaning of the line is.
Nobody should be adding that line unless they understand what it means.
Its based off the kernel's model.

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#how-to-submit-a-change

Cheers,

Richard