On 4 July 2018 3:25:06 PM IST, Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 11:44:53PM +0200, Alexandru Moise wrote: >> > commit cd4a4ae4683dc2e09380118e205e057896dcda2b upstream. >> >> Who wrote this patch? Please keep the correct ownership of >patches... >> >This is Jenses work, I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I just >want >to make sure it reaches 4.17, I tried my best to follow these >guidelines: > >https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > >I assumed that the first Signed-off is implicitly the author of the >patch. >Is there something I am missing? Am I misinterpeting the stable kernel >rules? If you use git format-patch and git send-email for your patches, they'll come out looking like https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg236090.html, which appears to be the proper format since Greg applied those patches without pointing out any flaws in the format. Try -- Harsh Shandilya, PRJKT Development LLC
