[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> Ok so I see the problem Linus is referring to now (I received the hint
> by PM too), I thought the order of the signed-off-by was relevant, it
> clearly isn't or we're wasting space ;)

The order of the signed-offs are somewhat relevant, but no, sign-offs 
don't mean authorship.

See the rules for sign-off: you can sign off on another persons patches, 
even if they didn't sign off on them themselves. That's clause (b) in 
particular.

So yes, quite often you'd _expect_ the first sign-off to match the author, 
but that's a correlation, not a causal relationship.

		Linus