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

[York Sun]

On 03/19/2015 01:51 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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.
> 

Can you show me some examples so I can follow?

Back to this patch, it is not critical for u-boot to operate. Do you want to
drop this patch?

York