On 16/03/2018 19:12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> - the patch was provided to you by someone else who had signed-off the >> work before. > .. and > "12) When to use Acked-by: and Cc: > --------------------------------- > > The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the > development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery > path." > > The second of that is what my SoB means. The ultimate explanation however is the developer's certificate of origin, according to which "being on the delivery path" means "X got the patch from the SoB above and has sent it down the chain". So I think I should remove all SoB's after Liran's; they are just an internal Oracle thing. Paolo
