Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: silead_dmi: Add touchscreen platform data for the Teclast X3 Plus tablet

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:02:59PM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 04:37:43PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:33:38PM +0000, Alberto Ponces wrote:
> > >> Add touchscreen platform data for the Teclast X3 Plus tablet.
> > >>
> > >> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Alberto Ponces <ponces26@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Queued, thanks.
> > >
> > > Note for the future: Author signoff goes first, then reviewers, then committer.
> > 
> > In this case Alberto was the committer, so his sign-off is last, as it
> > should be. Any reported-by, suggested-by, acked-by or reviewed-by he
> > collected should go above his sign-off. Once you picked up his patch
> > you 'll become committer, so any markings you add should go between
> > his sign-off and yours.
> 
> Of course, you're correct. Thank you for the correction - and Alberto, apologies
> for the noise/confusion.
> 
> Dmitry, I reviewed documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst and
> 5.Posting.rst and didn't find this clearly defined. Have I missed where this is
> documented, or is an update in order?

I do not think is was ever stated explicitly, the closest comes "14) The
canonical patch format" which states that sign off goes before the ---
divider.

I think it comes naturally if you consider patch vs pull request: if you
decided to pull from Alberto's tree (or anyone else's tree) instead of
taking the patch via email, then if they'd put non-sign-off tags after
the sign-off, they'd end up in your and then Linus' tree like that, as
you would not add your sign-off when doing git merge.

But if you believe this should be called explicitly then adding a few
more words to section 14 should work.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry