linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mips: mm: Discard ioremap_uncached

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:04:15 -0700
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, okaya@...eaurora.org,
        chenhc@...ote.com, Sergey.Semin@...latforms.ru,
        Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "# v4 . 11" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mips: mm: Discard ioremap_uncached_accelerated()
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Hi Serge,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:13:54PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:59:40AM -0700, Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com> wrote:
> > However FYI for next time - you shouldn't really add someone else's
> > Signed-off-by tag anyway. The tag effectively states that a person can
> > agree to the Developer's Certificate of Origin for this patch (see
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst), and you can't agree that
> > on behalf of someone else. Generally a maintainer should add this tag
> > for themselves when they apply a patch.
> 
> I'm sorry if it seemed like I added Signed-off on your behalf.

That's OK, I didn't think you did it maliciously :)

> I thought the Signed-off also concerns the ones, who participated in
> the patch preparation. Since you suggested the design of the change,
> I've decided to put your name in the Signed-off tag. What shall I use
> in this way then?

In this case Suggested-by might have been a good choice. Reported-by is
also commonly used if someone reported a problem which you created a fix
for.

Section 13 of Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst describes
these tags along with a couple others.

Thanks,
    Paul