On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:30:10PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote: > Hmm, and my experience is exclusively limited to contributing code to > someone else's patches. Rather than dictate exact ordering, what about > deferring to standard sign-off procedure? > > E.g.: > > A Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer > along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple people > work on a single patch. Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by a > Signed-off-by: of the co-author(s). As per standard sign-off procedure, the > ordering of Co-developed-by:/Signed-off-by: pairs should reflect the patch's > handling insofar as possible. Notably, the last Signed-off-by: must always be > that of the developer submitting the patch, regardless of whether they are the > original author or a co-author. Yes, that makes sense. Thanks, tglx