Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: dts: S32G3: Introduce device tree for S32G-VNP-RDB3

From: Ghennadi Procopciuc
Date: Wed Mar 20 2024 - 04:24:28 EST


On 3/20/24 09:49, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 20/03/2024 08:00, Ghennadi Procopciuc wrote:
>> On 3/20/24 00:16, Wadim Mueller wrote:
>> [...]
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g3.dtsi
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>>> +/*
>>> + * Copyright 2021-2023 NXP
>>> + *
>>> + * Authors: Ghennadi Procopciuc <ghennadi.procopciuc@xxxxxxx>
>>> + * Ciprian Costea <ciprianmarian.costea@xxxxxxx>
>>> + * Andra-Teodora Ilie <andra.ilie@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> This pollutes the content of the file. Please make them part of the
>> commit description using 'Signed-off-by' tags.
>>
>
> No, that's not how process works. SoB are part of DCO and Ghennadi is
> allowed to skip them. Just read the DCO. Don't add fake SoB tags just
> because someone wants...
>
> Nothing is polluted in the file. That's what this section you have (if
> someone wants).
>

I apologize for not getting it right earlier. After reviewing the
information available at [0], I noticed that it suggests using
Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by when a patch has multiple
contributors. However, I could not find any mention of the 'Authors'
section in the file although it seems to be a common practice.

[0]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst#n491

Regards,
Ghennadi