On Monday, July 29, 2013 02:17:34 PM John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if > > a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going > > to > > be regarded as "suspicious" too now? > > > > And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull > > from > > them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't > > do > > bad things on purpose? > > Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone > else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice > here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to > merge commits either...
An SOB in the merge doesn't provide any additional information that can't be retrieved from git, unless you use a different e-mail address for the sign-off. :-) Rafael -- 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/
