On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:42:41 +0800 Chao Fan <fanc.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >Sorry for the delay on this. Life has been...challenging... > > > >> Signed-off-by: Cao Jin <caoj.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Chao Fan <fanc.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> > > > >What does this signoff chain mean? > > Hi jon, > > I made this patch. He is my colleague who helped me a lot on > investigating why this value decrease, so I added his s-o-b. > I didn't know how to put the position, but both of us are > responsible for this patch. Should I change and resend it? The meaning of Signed-off-by is defined in the DOC, as seen in Documentation/submitting-patches.rst. In this case, the better approach would have been to credit Cao Jin in the changelog, since he didn't write the patch. For a little documentation tweak like this it's not that big a deal, though, so I simply gone ahead and applied it. Thanks, jon
