On 29 September 2018 at 09:56, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:01:53AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> I was wondering about the ordering of these, actually. I've seen s-o-b >> on top and s-o-b on bottom of the cc list in lots of commits and >> haven't yet divined the One True Position. > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > > section 12, first sentence. > > The SOB chain needs to clearly express the path of the patch from > author(s) to the upstream kernel. > Note that this is the author of the *patch* not necessarily the author of the code. Anyone is free to submit patches adding code authored by others as long as the author has made it available under a suitable license, and this is actually the whole point of the S-o-B: you are stating to the next guy that the code included in your patch was made available to you under a compatible license.
