On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 05:30:40PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darren Hart [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:22 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>; LKML <linux-
> > [email protected]>; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on 
> > descriptor
> > GUID modalias
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:50:01PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > The descriptor GUID is not used to indicate that WMI notifications
> > > in the dell-wmi driver work properly.  As such a modalias should
> > > not be present that causes this driver to load on systems with this
> > > GUID.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Pali Pohar <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <[email protected]>
> > 
> > I can do this manually, but for future reference:
> > 
> > Nit, in general, the author's sign off should be first, followed by
> > reviewers and testers. The maintainer will add their sign off at the end
> > - this keeps things clear regarding the development and delivery path.
> > In general, assume chronological order and you'll have the right idea.
> > 
> > Informational tags, like Reported, Suggested, Tested, and Fixes can come
> > before the Author sign off, which is consistent with the chronological
> > order.
> > 
> 
> Operationally is there is a flag I'm missing in git-format-patch that does
> this?  git format-patch -s puts my sign off at the very bottom, so this is a
> manual action to re-order if I'm adding in Reviewed-by: in the patch
> description.

Yes, this is a manual step. Git will add your sign off for you, but it doesn't
do it contextually, always at the end. Works for the first writing, after that
you have to manage the tags manually. (or at least that is what I do)

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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