[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] gbm.h: Add a missing stddef.h include for size_t.

[Michel Dänzer]

On 30.10.2015 02:49, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 29 October 2015 at 15:22, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
>>> <emmanuel.peyrot at collabora.com> wrote:
>>>> This was causing compilation issues when one of its providers wasn’t
>>>> already included before gbm.h.
>>> Cc: "11.0" <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>>>
>>> I'll push this later on today. For future patches please include your
>>> s-o-b line.
>>
>> Some of you keep insisting on adding s-o-b while the site says it's
>> not needed ( http://www.mesa3d.org/devinfo.html , "Patch formatting").
>> Maybe devinfo.html should be updated?
> 
> I think it's kind of meaningless without an explanation of what it
> means. The Linux kernel has a "Developer Certificate of Origin" in
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches that explains what it means in that
> context.
> 
> I'm not sure what lead the Linux community to create that and require
> S-o-b and the certificate of origin.

It was a reaction to the SCO lawsuit, to prevent doubts about the
provenance of code.


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