On St 09-11-05 09:20:25, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> "Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]> 08.11.05 18:13:28 >>>
> >On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >
> >> >And the patch (attachment) also contains From:, but it's missing
> >> >a Signed-off-by: line.
> >>
> >> I looked at many ChangeLog entries (which supposedly get created
> from
> >> the abstract), and by far not all of them have the author listed
> both as
> >> From: and Singed-Off-By:, which made me think that either of the
> two
> >> should be sufficient (and I really can't see why the author
> information
> >> needs to appear twice).
> >
> >Tools can determined the From: part from your email, so it's
> >often safe to omit that part.
> >
> >The S-o-b part is required...
>
> Strange. Andi Kleen specifically asked me to add From: to my patches...
> And I still can't see why the author of a patch wouldn't implicitly sign
> off on it.
Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches. s-o-b: means that patch is GPL.
Pavel
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