linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:33:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>,
	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, devel@...nvz.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xemul@...allels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 23:47 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > Not so good to me.
> >  
> > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > And that should be either an Acked-by or a Reviewed-by. You can't sign
> > off on patches which have not been submitted or transported by you.
> 
> I actually gave some input, provided a hash function, and so on.
> 
> So this SOB was valid. I do that all the time.

Not really. I recommend you to read the relevant file in Documentation
which covers what can have your SOB. 

Your input is documented in the mail thread, but it does not contain a
patch - which is Signed-off-by YOU - on which the thing at hand is
based on. So it's not covered by what SOB actually means.

You can rightfully request the patch author to add a "Suggested-by"
tag, but you can't rightfully claim authorship of something you did
not author.

> And yes, there are bugs in this patch, as many patches that were merged
> in linux tree, included by you.

That's a totally different issue. We can ack/review/signoff and commit
totally bogus patches as long as we want.

Though that does not change the meanings of the tags (Acked, Reviewed,
Signed-off) at all.

Thanks,

	tglx
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