From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756010AbcKVRJi (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:09:38 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:56963 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755406AbcKVRJf (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:09:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:09:07 +1100 From: Stephen Rothwell To: Casey Schaufler Cc: James Morris , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: bad commits in the security tree Message-ID: <20161123040907.708bb4cc@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <03bf91ac-1f20-1089-79dd-e342c9f610d9@schaufler-ca.com> References: <20161122215810.60c0cb1f@canb.auug.org.au> <03bf91ac-1f20-1089-79dd-e342c9f610d9@schaufler-ca.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Casey, On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:17:24 -0800 Casey Schaufler wrote: > > On 11/22/2016 2:58 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > I noticed that there are some commits in the security tree that have no > > Signed-off-by from the committer (Casey Schaufler). > > > My understanding is that patches I don't write should > be Acked, not Signed-off when I commit them. If this is > not correct I will address my misconduct. If you are on the path of a patch to Linus, you need to sign off on the patch according to the DCO - see section 11 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches (or Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst where it has been moved recently). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell