On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 05:56:57PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > Ah, OK, I see the new paragraph from you added in below commit. That is supposed to make it absolutely clear and explicit. There are other hints as to what a subsequent SOB means in that document already. Just the next section says: "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." It wouldn't hurt if people would look at that doc from time to time - we end up referring to it on a daily basis. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette