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

Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-04-04T12:43:43Z

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 09:54:55AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> 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.)

Actually, we might want to generally, to signify agreement to the IPR.
How about adding this to our rules? But in this case Satananda Burla is
a TC member so yes, no problem.

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