linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: Add uevent to notify userspace

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:36:26 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Badhri Jagan Sridharan <Badhri@...gle.com>,
        USB <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: Add uevent to notify userspace

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 03:38:30PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:41:09PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:

> > OK. I will talk with Badhri if I can upstream these.

> That's not an issue, you can keep the "From:" line on it, if you got it
> in a legal way, and then just have your signed off by on it, go read the
> DCO for the specifics.  I don't know why someone else told you
> otherwise.

Given the weakness people have in understanding the legal part of
signoffs it seems very unwise to just trust that they've actually
got everything clearly lined up and IME when they're missing they've
often just been removed or sometimes there's a very good reason why the
original author didn't provide a signoff.  It seems safer for everyone
to query what's going on and it's been fairly unusual that it's anything
other than a mistake.

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