linux-kernel - Re: Missing signoff in the drivers-x86-fixes tree

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Message-ID: <0d48ec5f-41a2-8482-3612-858fc9581dba@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:34:20 +0200 (EET)
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>, 
    Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
    linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing signoff in the drivers-x86-fixes tree

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> On 1/20/26 8:37 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2026, Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > Commit
> > > 
> > >    bb820f17b68f6 ("platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kernel panic in
> > > GET_INSTANCE_ID macro")
> > > 
> > > is missing a Signed-off-by from its author
> > 
> > Thanks for the heads up.
> > 
> > The patch was submitted with Signed-off-by but git interpret-trailers
> > --in-place
> > seems to mess the tag up for some reason.
> > 
> 
> I think it's my fault, I wrote the commit message in another text editor when
> I was reformatting the kernel trace back and when I copied and pasted there
> was a spurious " that messed up parsing the S-o-b.
> 
> Feel free to strip the spurious " if it helps.
> 
> Sorry about that, and thanks for catching it!

I've already fixed it by copying it manually, and noticed at that time the 
extra " which explains why the tools did what they did.

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