Hi Linus, On 09/08/2010 10:19 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Joel Becker<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Here are the ocfs2 fixes we have ready for pulling right now. I >> have a bit of a procedural question, though. I've been busy, so Tao was >> kind enough to take the fixes I already had and apply all the new fixes. >> He coordinated testing them and getting them ready to go upstream. >> That's why I have his git tree in the pull request below. >> I wasn't sure how the signoffs work for this. He's got signoffs >> on the stuff he put together, because it's coming through his tree. My >> naive assumption is that this is the correct way to go. > > The sign-off chain should basically stretch from the author to the > committer - so a good sign-off chain is one where the first sign-off > matches the author of the commit, and the last sign-off matches the > committer, and the ones in the middle are obviously the path it took > from one to the other. > > However, Tao has *NOT* added sign-offs to the patches he's taken. I > didn't look at all of them, but the first few commits are all authored > (and signed off on - so far so good) by Mark Fasheh, but there is no > sign-off for Tao. So the sign-off chain is clearly not complete. sorry for the trouble. This is the first time for me to collect patches for a mainline upstream. So I have added my sign-off to all the patches whose author isn't me to indicate that I am the committer. Hope it works. please pull git://oss.oracle.com/git/tma/linux-2.6.git fixes
REgards, Tao _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
