[Intel-gfx] linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drm-misc-fixes tree
Stephen Rothwell
sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Jan 18 23:17:44 UTC 2018
Hi Thomas,
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:18:48 +0100 Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
>
> That would be me.
> I've historically only added my signed-off-by:s on commits I've (co-)
> authored myself, as the committer info is already registered,
>
> But I take it that's not the correct approach?
Please read "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Basically, if you handle
the patch on its way to Linus (e.g. commit it to a branch of a git tree
that Linus (or someone else along the path) merges) then you need to
add a Signed-off-by tag.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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