Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:37:56 +0000 (19:37 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:52:57 +0000 (09:52 -0700)
commit9bf19b78a203b6ed20ed7b5d7222f5ef7a49aed4
tree155c78b7d8a0ca2e4a85f162b38d95808ef9e200
parent27ab873e0ca640cbe1375aa5a0cdd0607cb6bbdc
Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain

Document what a chain of Signed-off-by's in a patch commit message
should mean, explicitly.

This has been carved out from a tip subsystem handbook patchset by
Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201217183756.GE23634@zn.tnic
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst