linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: rts5208: Rewrite redundant if statement to improve code style

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:48:52 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Tobias Nießen 
        <tobias.niessen@...d.uni-hannover.de>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Sabrina Gaube <sabrina-gaube@....de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...cs.fau.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: rts5208: Rewrite redundant if statement to
 improve code style

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:12:44PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> Am 26.06.2019 um 16:56 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > Both these patches seem fine.
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> >> This commit uses the fact that
> >>
> >>     if (a) {
> >>             if (b) {
> >>                     ...
> >>             }
> >>     }
> >>
> >> can instead be written as
> >>
> >>     if (a && b) {
> >>             ...
> >>     }
> >>
> >> without any change in behavior, allowing to decrease the indentation
> >> of the contained code block and thus reducing the average line length.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tobias Nießen <tobias.niessen@...d.uni-hannover.de>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Gaube <sabrina-gaube@....de>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by is like signing a legal document that you didn't put any
> > of SCO's secret UNIXWARE source code into your patch or do other illegal
> > activities.  Everyone who handles a patch is supposed to Sign it.
> > 
> > It's weird to see Sabrina randomly signing your patches.  Probably there
> > is a more appropriate kind of tag to use as well or instead such as
> > Co-Developed-by, Reviewed-by or Suggested-by.
> > 
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> > 
> 
> Thank you, Dan. This patch series is a mandatory part of a course
> Sabrina and I are taking at university. We were told to add
> Signed-off-by for both of us. I can add Co-Developed-by if that helps?

Yes.  It does help.

regards,
dan carpenter