Re: process? [Re: Crypto Fixes for 4.19]

[Randy Dunlap]

On 9/19/18 9:40 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 09:10:55AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 9/19/18 6:23 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:22:01PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg: 
>>>>
>>>> This push fixes a potential boot hang in ccp and an incorrect
>>>> CPU capability check in aegis/morus on x86.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please pull from
>>>>
>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git linus
>>>
>>> Now pulled, thanks.
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>
>> Hi,
>> Just a process question:
>>
>> It looks like Greg is not adding Signed-of-by: <himself>
>> to mainline git commits, although the prior mainline git committer did so.
>>
>> Is that omission on purpose?
> 
> s-o-b does not get added to git pulls, I "trust" the subsystem
> maintainer got it correct.  That's what Linus has always done in the
> past, what am I doing differently here?
> 
>> submitting-patches.rst says:
>> The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
>> development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.
> 
> Yes, but not for git pulls.
> 
> I have not applied any patches sent in emails at this point in time, so
> there's nothing that I could have even signed off on.

OK, I see.

> confused,

no, that's me :)


thanks,
-- 
~Randy