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

[Kim Phillips]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:39:22 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> 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?

sure.

Kim