Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: pwm: mediatek,mt2712: add compatible for MT7988

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:05:47AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13/02/2024 18:48, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Rafał,
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 05:46:32PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> MT7988 has on-SoC controller that can control up to 8 PWMs.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > please make sure that the email address used for sending the patch
> > matches the Signed-off-by line.
> > 
> > (It depends on the pickyness of the relevant maintainer if that is a
> > stopper or not.)
> 
> Does not have to... It must match From field which is correct here.

Rafał's Signed-off matches the author, but not the sender. Together with
"the Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer submitting the
patch." (from Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst) I'd say it's
reasonable to request that there is a sign-off with the email matching
the sender. In my understanding the Sign-off line by the author isn't
really required because the sender can vouch for the author. Of course
this is a somewhat artificial discussion if the sender is the same
person as the author and only the email addresses differ. So this about
the strictness of the applying maintainer.

FTR:

	$  curl -s https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pwm/20240213164633.25447-1-zajec5@xxxxxxxxx/raw | grep -E '^(From|Signed-off-by):'
	From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>
	From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
	Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

the first From: is the sender, the second the author.

Best regards
Uwe

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