Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Basic StarFive JH7100 RISC-V SoC support

[Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 17:44, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:13 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:09 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:01 PM Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Why?
> > Submitting Patches tells about chronological order and last SoB to be
> > from the submitter.
> > These both are correct. Note the difference between 'last SoB' and
> > 'SoB to be last [line]'.
> >
> > Here is the excerpt:
> > "Notably, the last Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer
> > submitting the patch."
>
> I think having the S-o-b in the final line is far more common, and it does
> help identify who added the other tags, i.e. the person signing off
> immediately below. I don't reject patches that do this the other way round,
> but it's something that felt unusual here.

Then I'll stick to what's most common. In any case patch 12 and 16 got
it wrong by both conventions.

/Emil