netdev - Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the bpf tree

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Message-ID: <20230913091507.71869bba@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:15:07 +1000
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, bpf
 <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel
 Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Next Mailing List
 <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the bpf tree

Hi Alexei,

On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:18:45 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 3:10 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Commit
> >
> >   3903802bb99a ("libbpf: Add basic BTF sanity validation")
> >
> > is missing a Signed-off-by from its committer.  
> 
> Hmm. It's pretty difficult to fix.
> We'd need to force push a bunch of commits and add a ton of
> unnecessary SOBs to commits after that one.
> Can you make a note of it somehow?

No, I can't - git has no mechanism to do so.  However, I note that this
commit is signed off by one of the BPF maintainers, so maybe it can be
left as is and try to remember next time ;-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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