Re: [Madwifi-devel] Discussion: patch submission & legal stuff

[Bruno R. <bru...@4g...>]

On Friday 04 November 2005 19:33, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> >>In addition, we maybe should take care of the issues that the Linux
> >>kernel development is answering with the "Signed-off-by" procedure.
> >
> > what are these issues? how does the signed-off-by procedure work? any
> > pointers?
>
> Yes, have a look at http://kerneltrap.org/node/3180 (which described the
> initial proposal from Linus for this procedure) and at
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches in any recent kernel source tree (at
> least it's available in my 2.6.10 tree I have at hands here). If it's
> easier for anyone I'll put it on the server.

thanks for the links!
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actually i think this is not necessary for madwifi since we don't have such=
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large developer community with subsystem maintainers and also in contrast t=
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linux we have a central code repository. usually the process is only 2-step=
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at maximum: we get a patch from some person and someone with write access=20
commits it. the committer implicitly signs it off (which is recorded in the=
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commit logs) and the only thing left to note is where the patch comes from =
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which i usually do by adding something like "patch by XXX". maybe we could=
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standardize the format of this line so it would be easier for grepping it=20
later.

bruno