On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > [+Greg] > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:25:20PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 07:16:36AM +0000, cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Return the value iproc_pcie_setup_ib() directly instead of storing it in > > > another redundant variable. > > > > > > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Signed-off-by: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > This patch itself is fine, but was posted by cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx, not by > > "ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx>", so it needs another signoff > > and full name so the chain is complete. For more details see: > > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=v5.18#n363 > > Greg, Bjorn, > > I believe that appending a SoB like this myself is fine: > > Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx> > > It is a SOB already in kernel commit logs - I assume > that's the right thing to do in this case, please > let me know if it isn't and what should we do instead. Please just drop all patches submitted by this email address and from zte.com.cn at this point in time as we are unable to actually determine that they are coming from the correct developers. Also there's no feedback from them at all, which means no one is actually reading the email it is being purported to be sent from, which means it should be dropped no matter what anyway. thanks, greg k-h