linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:01 -0400
From:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership,
 development process

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:17:34PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if
> > a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to.  Are they going to
> > be regarded as "suspicious" too now?
> > 
> > And what about trusting maintainers?  If Linus trusts them enough to pull from
> > them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do
> > bad things on purpose?
> 
> Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here.  As someone
> else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice
> here.  Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to
> merge commits either...

Even then, you are the author of the merge commit.  So the original
question of tracking a 'chain-of-custody' from submitter to Linus' tree
is still answerable.  Even if there is only a single SoB in the patch.

thx,

Jason.
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