[U-Boot] [PATCH] TI: OMAP3: Overo Tobi ethernet support

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Olof Johansson,

In message <C6505381-97AC-4E05-9CCA-6089F69964D6 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > Please feel free to do that, but I consider this just adding
> > line-noise, unless you _really_ express special approval.
> >
> > Which sense would it make if I added a s-o-b to each and every commit
> > I'm pulling in from anywhere?
> 
> You're not pulling it, you are applying it. And the s-o-b is used to  
> show the paper trail of who has touched it. So all you should need to  
> backtrack the source of the code change is the list of the s-o-bs.

What is the difference between a "git pull" from some remote repo
and the "git am" of a patch posted on the mailing list? In both cases
I do _not_ touch the patch, and the result looks the same, too.

> S-o-b is not an approval of the technical merits of the change. It's a  
> pure bookkeeping measure to tell where a piece of code came from and  
> who handled it on the way.

If the "handling" is just a technical operation which does not modify
a single bit of the content I see no reason to add lines of s-o-b.
Hey, I use several stages of repositories, and a number or branches
here and there. Should I every time I pull from here or cherry-pick
from there or format-patch + am somewhere else add a s-o-b? This makes
zero sense to me.

> BUT in addition to this it's really useful for a newbie like me to see  
> who to send a patch to, since it shows the list of maintainership (up  
> to the first person that submits his work through git pulls, but that  
> seems nonexistent for non-maintainers in u-boot anyway :)

Did you try looking at the list of custodians? 
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Custodians

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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