On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:13:59PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> I still need my colleague to send the patches for me for the time being,
> since the patches are removed now, so I am actually asking: does these 2
> patches need to be resent with my SOB & my college's SOB, or maintainer
> can do that for us?
>
> Not aware where I am wrong.
Ok, lemme try again:
If you send someone else's patch, you need to denote that the patch
has been handled by you too. The reason this is done is so that it is
crystal clear how a patch has found its way upstream: from the author,
through the sender, then through the upstream maintainer and ending up
in the upstream kernel.
IOW, the SOB chain needs to *show* that:
Signed-off-by: Patch Author
Signed-off-by: Patch Sender
Signed-off-by: Subsystem maintainer
You can find a gazillion examples for this in git history, some of them,
unfortunately incorrect. Hopefully a small number.
And to answer your question: yes, the SOB needs to come from your
colleague and upstream maintainers cannot do that for you. The SOB is
his to give and cannot simply be slapped by maintainers at will because
it entails the Certificate of Origin. That's also in the link I pointed
you to earlier.
All clear? Or need more clarification?
If so, don't hesitate to ask.
HTH.
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