[U-Boot] [PATCH 17/28] armv8/fsl-lsch3: Enable system error aborts

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 13:27 -0700, York Sun wrote:
> 
> On 03/19/2015 01:06 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 13:02 -0700, York Sun wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03/19/2015 12:58 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 12:54 -0700, York Sun wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 03/19/2015 12:52 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 18:14 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 04:45:48PM +0000, York Sun wrote:
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> York, where's your signoff since you're the one submitting the patch?
> >>>>
> >>>> I am sending many patches in this set. Since I didn't contribute to this patch,
> >>>> I didn't add my signed-off-by.
> >>>
> >>> That's not what signed-off-by means.  I realize (though never understood
> >>> why) the U-Boot project differs from Linux rules in terms of whether
> >>> custodians are expected to sign off patches when applying, but does that
> >>> extend to submitting patches by e-mail as well?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't have the answer myself. I haven't added any of my signed-off-by for the
> >> patches I squashed/tested/sent. For small patch set, I would request the
> >> original author to send each patch. For large set with dependency, I send patch
> >> on behalf of the authors. I don't want to take credit for the patch I didn't
> >> contribute the change. I test all of them though.
> > 
> > The From: line is for giving credit.  Signed-off-by shows the path the
> > patch took.  Plus, leaving your name off puts all the blame on the
> > author, when they weren't the ones who decided the patch was ready to
> > submit. :-)
> > 
> 
> When multiple patches are squashed, I put authors' name in signed-off-by. For
> this reason, I think adding my signoff will be confusing.

If there are multiple authors you can give credit with an explicit
statement in the changelog.

> But I agree with you that I should have my name somewhere for the patches I
> sent. Doesn't the email "from" qualify?

The email "from" doesn't go in the git history.

-Scott