On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:53:05AM +0200, Marcin Wojtas wrote: > >> I think Contibuted-under: still needs to come first. > >> > >> I don't think we have an explicit policy for how to deal with > >> multi-contributor patches. The ones we do see tend to just keep a > >> single commit message and list the contributors. > >> > >> In Linux. it would be something like > >> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com> > >> [Introduce protocol GUID to force correct driver dispatch order] > >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > >> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com> > >> > >> I would be quite happy to use the same format here. > >> > > > > Well, Tianocore still conflates authorship with a statement regarding > > the origin of the contribution. I wonder how this is supposed to work > > when Linaro engineers such as myself contribute code that was authored > > by engineers working in member companies, e.g., Socionext. The license > > and the contract that company has with Linaro give me the right to > > contribute that code, but that does not make me the author, and I > > cannot add a Signed-off-by that wasn't present when we received the > > code (even if I knew the name of the author) > > I think it's fairly easy thing, needlessly twisted... How does above > reflect the requirement to add contributor sign-off to someone else's > patch (with his authorship and original sign-off - should they be > removed?)?
Well, we're not debating this because it's critical for this one patch, but because it would be useful to have a precedent. > Anyway, let's make a quick decision here - should I submit patch with > linux-like signatures and description? Or should I split the patches? Let's put it this way - if you split the patches, you remove this series from abovementioned discussion :) / Leif _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel