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

[Greg KH]

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.

confused,

greg k-h