[openib-general] progress...but opensm crashed

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:28:06AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:14:17AM -0800, Tom Duffy wrote:
>> This is true for Linux kernel code as Linus requires it,
>
>Linus in fact does not _require_ it. He just wants a name and
>email address associated with each patch and who has reviewed it.
>It's all based on trust.
>
>He strongly *prefers* a "Signed-off-by" line and will get cranky if
>folks submit too many patches without the S-O-B line.
>Been there, done that.

Rusty Trivial Russell, OTOH, told me he would no longer take patches
without S-O-B
>
>> but do we require such things for the userland stuff?
>> I see that it says so on openib.org.  Just making sure.
>
>It's probably overkill for userspace stuff.
>
>But I think it's good practice to track who submitted a patch
>in the SVN logs as well as archiving the email.

If mentioning the submitter's name is needed at all, putting it in the
log should really suffice for userspace. ymmv

Thank you,