Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drm-misc tree

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Hi,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 09:56:32PM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 2023-11-13 21:45, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Luben,
> > 
> > On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:32:40 -0500 Luben Tuikov <ltuikov89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2023-11-13 20:08, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >>> On 2023-11-13 15:55, Stephen Rothwell wrote:  
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> Commit
> >>>>
> >>>>   0da611a87021 ("dma-buf: add dma_fence_timestamp helper")
> >>>>
> >>>> is missing a Signed-off-by from its committer.
> >>>>  
> >>>
> >>> In order to merge the scheduler changes necessary for the Xe driver, those changes
> >>> were based on drm-tip, which included this change from drm-misc-fixes, but which
> >>> wasn't present in drm-misc-next.
> >>>
> >>> I didn't want to create a merge conflict between drm-misc-next and drm-misc-fixes,
> >>> when pulling that change from drm-misc-next to drm-misc-fixes, so that I can apply  
> >>
> >> ... when pulling that change from from drm-misc-fixes into drm-misc-next, so that I can apply...
> >>
> >>> the Xe scheduler changes on top of drm-misc-next.  
> >>
> >> The change in drm-misc-fixes is b83ce9cb4a465b. The latter is contained
> >> in linus-master, and in drm-misc-fixes, while the former is in drm-misc-next.
> >> When we merge linus-master/drm-misc-fixes into drm-misc-next, or whichever way
> >> it happens, I'd like to avoid a merge conflict, but wanted to expedite the changes
> >> for Xe.
> > 
> > None of that is relevant ... if you commit a patch to a tree that will
> > be in the linux kernel tree, you must add your Signed-off-by to the commit.
>
> Noted!
> 
> So I always do this when I do git-am and such, but wasn't sure for this one single cherry-pick whose
> original author was the committer in drm-misc-fixes, but will add my Signed-off-by in those
> rare circumstances.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification!

In order to move forward with this, can you provide your SoB here for
that patch so that we can at least point to it in the drm-misc-next PR?

Maxime

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