linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] printk: nbcon: Export console_is

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Message-ID: <aMwC4HAYjpWpZDMj@pathway.suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:02:24 +0200
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Daniel Thompson <danielt@...nel.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] printk: nbcon: Export console_is_usable

On Wed 2025-09-17 10:07:47, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 09:21:48AM -0300, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> > > 
> > > It means that Macros developed a patch and Petr reviewed it.
> > > The patch was not longer modified.
> 
> That's not entirely correct. The signed-off trailer is used as the boundary
> indicating who was the person responsible for collecting the trailers. When
> the trailers are collected by the original author as part of their iteration
> cycles, their signed-off-by trailer goes below any trailers they have
> received.

This is an interesting interpretation. I am just curious. Has this
already been discussed anywhere, please?

It seems that the ordering of the trailers is not much described
in the process documentation, see
https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html

Best Regards,
Petr