[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 03/23] keymile: Fix Coding style issues for keymile boards.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20110401181751.d2c2f4bf.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
> > 
> > Why do you send a "Signed-off-by" here?
> > 
> > Did you mean "Acked-by:" ?
> > 
> > Signed-off-by "certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right
> > to pass it on as a open-source patch."  However, you have not been
> > anywhere in the queue of creating or forwarding these patches?
> 
> as 83xx maintainer, I sign off on all patches committed to the mpc83xx
> tree, which are subsequently 'forwarded' to the main u-boot tree.  This

If the patches go through your tree, i. e. if you actually "handle"
these patcehs in any way (by applying them to your tree, or pulling
them into your tree, or similar), then a SoB is OK.

> particular case is no different, except the 83xx patches here are too
> intertwined with other, non-83xx ones.  So to facilitate the process, I
> sign them off on-list such that they can be applied as-is to the
> main u-boot tree.

This case _is_ different.  You do not touch these patches at all. You
do NOT pull them in your tree.  You do not "pass on" these patches
either.


Is it OK with you when I convert all your "Signed-off-by:" into
"Acked-by:" for this patch series?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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