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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Mar 19 21:51:18 CET 2015


On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 13:47 -0700, York Sun wrote:
> 
> On 03/19/2015 01:37 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Changelog doesn't goes to git history either.

Yes, it does.  I'm not talking about the comments below the --- that are
sometimes used to give history of the patch itself or other transient
info.  The stuff above the --- is the git changelog.

-Scott




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