On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:00:22 +0000 "Pearson, Greg" <greg.pearson@xxxxxx> wrote: > I wasn't quite sure what to do about that at first either, I read > "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" and it 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." > > Since Yinghai contributed some code that is in the current version of > the patch I thought the "Signed-off-by" tag would be ok, but if > something else is more appropriate I have no problem re-cutting the > patch to make the chain of custody more clear. Yup, we shouldn't expect people to be able to magically infer fine-grained details such as this from hints embedded in the signoff trail. Fortunately we can write stuff in English ;) I added : This patch contains contributions from Yinghai Lu. to the changelog. Simple, huh? :) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>