On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:27:35AM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > Putting this DCO question aside, I would find normal that the commit > message would contains a small note adding something like: > [This patch was originally written by ...] It's in the subject (where it ended up from git format-patch). Dan has already taken me to task for the format of the commits here. > The signed-off-by should be like: > Signed-off-by: Original Author <author@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This sounds awfully like *you've* signed off on *this* patch, but sure, whatever is the usual way. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:49:09AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > It looks like everything was BCC instead of To: and Cc:? I can't tell > which went to linux-sparse and which smatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Smatch is > GPL and Sparse is MIT, but any shared code is MIT licensed. I screwed up the mailing (next ones will be better), but they all went to smatch. As being in smatch and not sparse is of no use to us, I thought this made sense right now at least until smatch is nearer upstream. > cherry-pick those two patches. Or John, you could cherry-pick them and > send them to me. `man git cherry-pick`. There's a good few more than just two. If you'd prefer, I can work on taking them upstream first? regards john