Hi Casey, On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:17:24 -0800 Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/22/2016 2:58 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > I noticed that there are some commits in the security tree that have no > > Signed-off-by from the committer (Casey Schaufler). > > > My understanding is that patches I don't write should > be Acked, not Signed-off when I commit them. If this is > not correct I will address my misconduct. If you are on the path of a patch to Linus, you need to sign off on the patch according to the DCO - see section 11 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches (or Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst where it has been moved recently). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html