From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Babic Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:14:41 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Signed-off-by rules for U-Boot In-Reply-To: <53725E6B.9020502@wwwdotorg.org> References: <53725E6B.9020502@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <53726111.7000006@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Stephen, On 13/05/2014 20:03, Stephen Warren wrote: > Does U-Boot follow the same Signed-off-by procedures as the Linux > kernel, or is s-o-b only relevant in U-Boot for the initial patch > submitter, and not maintainers? > Yes, we discussed this in a previous thread, here Wolfgang's answer: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-October/137248.html > I ask because there are a bunch of patches of mine that got applied > without the maintainer adding their S-o-b when applying them, which > would be very unusual for Linux, but perhaps it's normal for U-Boot? > It should be normal for U-Boot. I never add my s-o-b to patches that I only merge. Only if I change something I add my s-o-b. If this is not the right rule, I am doing wrong since a lot of time ;-). > Some likely non-exhaustive examples are: > > 2813006fecda usb: ci_udc: allow multiple buffer allocs per ep > 66b88b07cdab usb: ums: add error handling for failed registration > 264e0e591bbd config: enable CMD_BMP when API+LCD is enabled > 53eb768dfb97 aes: make apply_cbc_chain_data non-static > > Yet others did get a maintainer s-o-b: > > d381294aef4a ARM: tegra: pack pinmux data tables tighter > def816a2ba87 mmc: set rca to 1 for MMC cards > 91171091c673 ARM: tegra: make use of negative ENV_OFFSET on NVIDIA... > 6ab6a650a418 disk: initialize name/part fields when returning a whole... > c75942c7b792 sf: winbond: fix page_size > > It seems like it mostly varies by maintainer. Agree we should be consistent. I am not aware that the original rule was changed, even if the behavior is different as the Linux kernel. Regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic at denx.de =====================================================================