Re: [PATCH 1/2] serial: set suppress_bind_attrs flag only if builtin

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 18:32:28 EST


On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:21:08 -0600 Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/17/2018 4:05 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:03:10 +0200 Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This should have Arnd's Signed-off-by: as well.
>
> I'm just interested to know, why?

So that Arnd certifies that

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or

and all the other stuff in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
section 11!

Also, because section 12 says so :) And that final sentence is, I
believe, appropriate.