On 4 July 2018 3:25:06 PM IST, Alexandru Moise 00moses.alexander00@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 11:44:53PM +0200, Alexandru Moise wrote:
commit cd4a4ae4683dc2e09380118e205e057896dcda2b upstream.
Who wrote this patch? Please keep the correct ownership of
patches...
This is Jenses work, I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I just want to make sure it reaches 4.17, I tried my best to follow these guidelines:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
I assumed that the first Signed-off is implicitly the author of the patch. Is there something I am missing? Am I misinterpeting the stable kernel rules?
If you use git format-patch and git send-email for your patches, they'll come out looking like https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg236090.html, which appears to be the proper format since Greg applied those patches without pointing out any flaws in the format.
Try