netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] drivers: Remove inclusion of vermagic header

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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:44:32 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Ion Badulescu <ionut@...ula.org>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Pensando Drivers <drivers@...sando.io>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] drivers: Remove inclusion of vermagic header

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:26:04PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> I personally don't use such notation and rely on the submission flow.
>
> The patch has two authors both written in SOBs and it will be visible
> in the git history that those SOBs are not maintainers additions.

A lonely SOB doesn't explain what the involvement of the person is. It
is even documented:

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

Section 12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-developed-by:

I guess that is the maintainer of the respective tree's call in the end.

> Can you please reply to the original patch with extra tags you want,
> so b4 and patchworks will pick them without me resending the patches?

Ok.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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