On Sunday, March 13, 2011 09:15:46 am Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:24:47PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > I am not sure why Greg did that to you, as I said DCO requires usable > > address, that's it. > > The underlying principle is we need your own email address on the > Signed-off-by line, so we can contact you later in case a lawsuit comes > up. If you're sending a patch from a different email address than is in > your signed-off-by, how are we to know it's actually yours? How do you know that the "from" name on the e-mail is real (it is and you don't). However the idea for cryptographically signed patches have been rejected. DCO is just allows you to say "I in a good faith believed that the code that was submitted was OK to be applied". > > > As you can see it is quite common practice so please do not invent new > > rules. > > Yes, you can come up with a couple thousand patches (out of the ~200,000 > patches in that range) that have sent differing committer emails and > Signed-off-by email addresses. 3058 out of 178003 non-merge commits to be exact or about 1.7%. About 50 of these are due to typos. > > However, since you haven't sent me very many patches before or > communicated very much with me, I have no prior knowledge of what email > addresses you actually own. So I'll ask you about your two different > email addresses, in case you have a bad mail config, just like I would > ask anyone else. Please don't take it personally. :) I don't, as long as I get to keep my setup ;) Hopefully this email will show that dtor@xxxxxxx does belong to myself. > > > Attached is a quick-n-dirty script I used to generate the list. > > Nifty python script though! > Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
