netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] MT7530 DSA subdriver fix VLAN egress and handling of all link-local frames

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:19:02 -0400
From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>, 
	DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>, Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, 
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>, 
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
	Bartel Eerdekens <bartel.eerdekens@...stell8.be>, erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com, mithat.guner@...ont.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] MT7530 DSA subdriver fix VLAN egress and
 handling of all link-local frames

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:29:19PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> > For future memory: I think the SoB in the cover letter is not required,
> > and is, at least to me, a bit confusing.
> > 
> > No action needed here, I'll keep this unmodified, but I suggest to omit
> > it in future submission.
> 
> b4 puts it on the cover letter so it's not my doing.

This is done because many subsystems use the cover letter as the merge commit
message. Those subsystems who don't follow this practice don't generally care
if there's a Signed-Off-By in the cover letter anyway, so I don't see why this
is a concern that it's there.

-K