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    • Sean Christopherson's avatar
      checkpatch: Warn on improper usage of Co-developed-by · 6c5d24ee
      Sean Christopherson authored 
      The purpose of Co-developed-by: is to give attribution to authors who
aren't already attributed by the From: tag, i.e. who aren't the nominal
patch author.  Because Co-developed-by: is essentially a variation of
From:, it must be accompanied by a Signed-off-by: of the associated
co-author.  To ease the burden of determining whether or not co-authors
have signed off, Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by: must be explicitly
paired, i.e. on consecutive lines for a given co-author.
Suggested-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      6c5d24ee
    • Joel Stanley's avatar
      Documentation: rtc: Correct location of rtctest.c · c5576080
      Joel Stanley authored 
      The useful little rtctest program moved location a while back.

Fixes: a12ab9e1 ("selftests: move RTC tests to rtc subfolder")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      c5576080
    • Sean Christopherson's avatar
      docs: Clarify the usage and sign-off requirements for Co-developed-by · 24a2bb90
      Sean Christopherson authored 
      The documentation for Co-developed-by is a bit light on details, e.g. it
doesn't explicitly state that:

  - Multiple Co-developed-by tags are perfectly acceptable
  - Co-developed-by and Signed-off-by must be paired together
  - SOB ordering should still follow standard sign-off procedure

Lack of explicit direction has resulted in developers taking a variety
of approaches, often lacking any intent whatsoever, e.g. scattering SOBs
willy-nilly, collecting them all at the end or the beginning, etc...
Tweak the wording to make it clear that multiple co-authors are allowed,
and document the expectation that standard sign-off procedures are to
be followed.

The use of "original author" has also led to confusion as many patches
don't have just one "original" author, e.g. when multiple developers
are involved from the genesis of the patch.  Remove all usage of
"original" and instead call out that Co-developed-by is simply a way to
provide attribution in addition to the From tag, i.e. neither tag is
intended to imply anything with regard to who did what.

Provide examples to (hopefully) eliminate any ambiguity.

Cc: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      24a2bb90
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