The sob tag is only for persons that are involved in the development of the patch. Acked-by: Rene Bolldorf <xsecute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sergei, > >>> --- /dev/null >>> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/pci.h >>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ >>> +/* >>> + * Atheros 724x PCI support >>> + * >>> + * Copyright (C) 2011 René Bolldorf<xsecute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> No signoff from him? He seems to be the original author... > > I have added him to CC, so he can ACK/NACK the patch. However I'm not aware of > any rule which states that each patch must be signed off by the original authors > of the modified code. > > I have missed something? > > -Gabor >
