On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 08:16:28PM +0000, Sunil Muthuswamy wrote: > > What is this SoB chain supposed to say? > > Quoting from the link you shared: > "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." > > My intent to include Boqun in the Signed-off by tag was to indicate that he was involved > in the development of the patch here. Do you see "Co-developed-by" in the title of that section? This is how you express co-authorship. As it is now: Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng (Microsoft) <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> it says that you authored the patch and Boqun handled it further, i.e., he's in the patch's delivery path. But he isn't - you're sending it. HTH. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette