On Wed, 01 Oct 2025, Raag Jadav <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 11:52:20AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Oct 2025, Mika Kahola <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <[email protected]> >> >> You need to add your Signed-off-by when sending someone else's patches. > > Isn't this only when the submitter has made adjustments to originally > authored code?
No. You *always* need to add your Signed-off-by when contributing to the kernel, regardless of whether you were involved in the development of the patch, or just handling and transporting the patch. See (c) in [1]. BR, Jani. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#developer-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1 -- Jani Nikula, Intel
