Re: [RFC PATCH 16/16] KVM: PPC: e500mc support

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 01/09/2012 09:29 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> > 
> > Best to include their signoffs, if possible.
>
> These patches are based in part on a bunch of different patches from
> these people (for which I did receive signoffs).  I was reluctant to put
> their signoff directly on the new patches, since I didn't want to make
> it look like they had submitted the patch in anything resembling its
> current form.  I wanted to give them credit for what they did, but not
> blame for what I did with their code.
>

Signoffs are for assigning neither credit nor blame, but for attributing
authorship and affirming that a contributor has the right to contribute
code or pass it along.  Please read the DCO at
https://lwn.net/Articles/437739/.

It's okay to miss them from time to time, especially for established
contributors, but avoid it whenever possible.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux