On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Emanuel Krenz wrote: > > Emanuel, what is going on here, please? Is it that you authored this patch > > yourself, and would like to have it included in Linus' tree (only then it > > can go to -stable)? > > > > If so, please remove all Signoffs of people who haven't provided it to > > you, and resubmit it to maintainer (./scripts/get_maintainer.pl will tell > > you who are proper recepients of this patch). > > > > Thanks, > > > Hello, > I'm sorry, guys. I thought I have to add those "Signed-off-by" lines to > mention, where I got the ideas for this patch from.
For real meaning of Signed-off-by:, please refer to Documentation/SubmittingPatches, section 12. > It was actually this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/647 That was > obviously a mistake, please forgive me. As I mentioned, this was my > first submitted patch, I was just so excited that I might help > developing. > > Thank you, Jiri, for telling me, to remove this "Signed-off-by" lines and > resubmit the patch after using get_maintainer.pl. > Now I actually got your name as the maintainer of HID CORE LAYER. So i'll send > it to you again without those lines, i hope it's correct now. Yup, that is the proper process. Thanks for submitting the patch, I'll respond to that separately. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
