On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > Hi Guennadi, > > On 04/02/2013 04:54 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > > > >> > v4l2_of_parse_parallel_bus() function is now static and > >> > EXPORT_SYMBOL() doesn't apply to it any more. Drop this > >> > meaningless statement, which was supposed to be done in > >> > the original merged patch. > >> > > >> > While at it, edit the copyright notice so it is sorted in > >> > both the v4l2-of.c and v4l2-of.h file in newest entries > >> > on top order, and state clearly I'm just the author of > >> > parts of the code, not the copyright owner. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > This is not concerning the contents of this patch, but rather the form > > confuses me a bit - the two above Sob's: you are the author, and you're > > sending the patch to the list, but Kyungmin Park's Sob is the last in the > > list, which to me means that your patch went via his tree, but it's you > > who's sending it?... I think I saw this pattern in some other your patches > > too. What exactly does this mean? > > This means just that Kyungmin approves the patch submission as our manager > and the internal tree maintainer. He is not necessarily directly involved > in the development of a patch. As you probably noticed his Signed-off is > on patches from all our team members. I agree it is not immediately obvious > what's going on here. This has been discussed in the past few times. For > instance please refer to this thread: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg74981.html Ok, thanks, I wasn't aware of this use of Sob. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
