[Buildroot] [PATCH next v2] atop: fix minor() major() build failure

Giulio Benetti giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com
Tue Aug 28 20:37:32 UTC 2018


Hello,

Il 28/08/2018 22:35, Thomas Petazzoni ha scritto:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:26:45 +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> 
>>> We need your Signed-off-by here, i.e inside the patch you are
>>> backporting.
>>
>> Ok, I've confused Signed-off-by in that patch as "stealing" Authorship,
>> instead the Authorship is defined in "From:" field.
> 
> Signed-off-by are here to track the "merging" path of the patch. You're
> taking a patch from somewhere and adding it to Buildroot, you add your
> SoB to it. If the original author had a SoB, you would have kept it,
> and added yours below it. This is not stealing the authorship, but
> documenting who took the patch and added it in Buildroot.

Thanks for clarifying.

Giulio


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