[virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH 08/11] transport-pci: Introduce virtio extended capability

Cornelia Huck
2023-04-04T07:55:00Z

On Tue, Apr 04 2023, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 01:58:31AM +0300, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> PCI device configuration space for capabilities is limited to only 192
>> bytes shared by many PCI capabilities of generic PCI device and virtio
>> specific.
>>
>> Hence, introduce virtio extended capability that uses PCI Express
>> extended capability.
>> Subsequent patch uses this virtio extended capability.
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Satananda Burla <sburla@marvell.com>
>
> What does it "Co-developed-by" mean exactly that Signed-off-by
> does not?

AIUI, "Co-developed-by:" is more akin to a second "Author:", i.e. to
give attribution. (Linux kernel rules actually state that any
"Co-developed-by:" must be followed by a "Signed-off-by:" for that
author, but we don't really do DCO here, the S-o-b is more of a
convention.)

>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>