Re: [PATCH 4/4] clk: tegra: Add support for the Tegra132 CAR IP block

[Paul Walmsley]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Stephen Warren wrote:

> On 01/09/2015 01:52 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > Hi Thierry
> > 
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2015, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:38:29PM -0800, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This patch is based on several patches from others:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. a  patch from Peter De Schrijver:
> > > > 
> > > > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.1/06094.html
> > > > 
> > > > 2. a patch from Bill Huang ("clk: tegra: enable cclk_g at boot on
> > > > Tegra132"), and
> > > > 
> > > > 3. a patch from Allen Martin ("clk: Enable tegra clock driver for
> > > > tegra132").
> > > 
> > > Doesn't this technically require Signed-off-bys from each of the above,
> > > then?
> > 
> > I don't think so.  Documentation/SubmittingPatches states:
> 
> It's certainly been deemed acceptable in the past, if admittedly not optimal,
> for the person who is the "exit point" of an organization/company for the
> patch to be the only person to sign it off. The reason being they're vouching
> that the Certificate of Origin applies to all the company-sponsored work
> internal to the organization.

I'm not even sure that applies to this patch.  If I were passing along a 
verbatim copy of someone else's patch, or a copy with minor modifications, 
then it definitely be appropriate and expected to pass along their 
Signed-off-by:.  But this patch is original work; it's not a verbatim copy 
of any of the patches that I mention above (which are all publicly 
available, incidentally).


- Paul
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