Am 03.02.2012 18:57, schrieb Gerhard Wiesinger: > BTW: Why are always "signed offs" generated when a maintainer commits? > e.g. 069ab0eb8a46bc4ff6f4d4d81bf037d3441347da > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
It documents who touched the patch (possibly including resolving minor merge conflicts or changing the commit message) and builds a chain of certifications that the origin and contents are okay: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches Cheers, Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
