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

[Jeffrey Hugo]

On 10/17/2018 4:32 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Ah, interesting.  I see that the documentation was updated since I was 
told last year in the same situation by a different maintainer that 
co-authors should not have SOB lines on the patch.

Good to know.  Thanks for illuminating me.

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