Re: [PATCH bpf-next 09/13] bpf: keep the vmlinux BTF zstd-compressed in the kernel image

[bot+bpf-ci]

> bpf: keep the vmlinux BTF zstd-compressed in the kernel image

TL;DR: Commit message only: the Co-developed-by tag for Ihor Solodrai is
followed by a "TODO-NEEDS-IHOR" placeholder instead of a real Signed-off-by,
which checkpatch would flag.

> bpf: keep the vmlinux BTF zstd-compressed in the kernel image
>
[ ... ]
>
> Co-developed-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx>
> TODO-NEEDS-IHOR: Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Wang <wanjay@xxxxxxxxxx>

The Co-developed-by: tag for Ihor Solodrai is followed by a placeholder line,
"TODO-NEEDS-IHOR: Signed-off-by: ...", instead of an actual Signed-off-by:
trailer.

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst says that every
Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by a Signed-off-by: of the
associated co-author.  As written, the only parsed Signed-off-by: is Jay
Wang's, and checkpatch.pl would report "Co-developed-by: must be immediately
followed by Signed-off-by:".

The TODO marker would also end up in the git history.  None of the later
commits in this series (e46b5971bc91, cae96a9f7395, 4d32ca0c95ea) changes
these trailers.

Should the placeholder be replaced with Ihor's real Signed-off-by:, or the
Co-developed-by: tag be dropped?


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