Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix comment typo

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On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 09:07:22PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 01:50:34PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 08:33:14AM -0400, Shaomin Deng wrote:
> > >> From: Mao Zhu <zhumao001@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> 
> > >> Delete duplicated word in comment.
> > >
> > > On what function?
> > 
> > Bagas, do I *really* have to ask you, yet again, to stop nitpicking our
> > contributors into the ground?  It appears I do.  So:
> > 
> > Bagas, *stop* this.  It's a typo patch removing an extraneous word.  The
> > changelog is fine.  We absolutely do not need you playing changelog cop
> > and harassing contributors over this kind of thing.
> 
> Amen.
> 

Amen too. Hope I can learn from this.

> > >> Signed-off-by: Mao Zhu <zhumao001@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > You're carrying someone else's patch, so besides SoB from original
> > > author, you need to also have your own SoB.
> > 
> > This, instead, is a valid problem that needs to be fixed.
> 
> I mean ... yes, technically, it does.  But it's a change that deletes
> a word in a comment.  Honestly, I'd take the patch without any kind of
> sign-off.  It doesn't create any copyright claim, which is the purpose
> of the DCO.

What? Relaxed SoB requirement for trivial patches like this? I thought
that SoB rules also apply to these patches.

Thanks.

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