On 1/10/22 16:25, Borislav Petkov wrote:
"Standard sign-off procedure applies, i.e. the ordering of
Signed-off-by: tags should reflect the chronological history of
the patch insofar as possible, regardless of whether the author
is attributed via From: or Co-developed-by:. Notably, the last
Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer submitting the
patch."
So this means that "the author must be the first SoB" is not an absolute
rule. In the case of this patch we had:
From: Jing Liu <jing2.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
...
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jing Liu <jing2.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@xxxxxxxxx>
and the possibilities could be:
1) have two SoB lines for Jing (before and after Thomas)
2) add a Co-developed-by for Thomas as the first line
3) do exactly what the gang did ("remain practical and do only an SOB
chain")
Paolo
