Re: [PATCH 0/3] ser_gigaset fixes

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Sat Dec 12 2015 - 13:33:10 EST


Hi Tilman,

On za, 2015-12-12 at 19:09 +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 10.12.2015 um 12:31 schrieb Paul Bolle:
> > 1/3 ran into objections and, I think, Alan Cox is working on an
> > alternative for it. Would you mind resending 2/3 and 3/3 as a two
> > patches series? Feel free to add
> > Acked-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > to both.
>
> Alan's patch dated 09 Dec 2015 20:33:24 applies on top of 1/3 so I
> reckon it should be kept.

Which apparently never hit my INBOX. If it had, we wouldn't have been
discussing my request to resend. Thanks for pointing me at that patch!

> > (The previous gigaset series, which you sent in July this year, was
> > picked up from netdev directly by David Miller. Unless people
> > actually
> > prefer these patches to also be signed-off by me, I'm perfectly fine
> > with that.)
>
> I think as a maintainer you are supposed to sign off patches for the
> code you maintain. My signed-off as recently retired ex-maintainer was
> probably still good enough in July. I'm unsure whether it still is
> today.

So I'll jot you down as someone preferring that I sign off.

I'll take your series, and Alan's patch - which you just forwarded to me
in a separate message - and kick them around a bit more. Then I expect
to send everything to netdev by next Monday.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle
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