linux-kernel - Re: libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211

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Message-ID: <20070618185704.GA25340@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:57:04 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	hs4233@...l.mn-solutions.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: libertas (private) ioctls vs. nl80211

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:44:36PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:38:47PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:13 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > I suspect that the probability of your proposal succeeding would be increased
> > > > if you could prepare a patch...
> > 
> > Applied to upstream-fixes branch of libertas-2.6 which is destined for
> > 2.6.22; I hope you don't mind that I just added the Signed-off-by for
> > you.
> 
> Adding a signed off line for a patch that purely removes codes seems
> rather pointless to me, but feel free to add it if you care.
THe Signed-off-by: document the path a given patch have taken on its way
to the final acceptance and does not have any significance whatsoever
about the content of the patch. Anyone on the Signed-of-by route
may change the patch (and I often do so) without further notice.

So judging if a Signed-off-by: should be added or not based on
patch content is wrong. It is a patch anyway.

That said the legal(in a loose definition of legal) rationale may
be of much less significance when trivially removing some code.
But we use the same mechanish even to cover spelling corrections.

	Sam
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