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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail•com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv•linux.org.uk>, Sage Weil <sage@newdream•net>,
	linux-next <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the ceph tree
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:33:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150626183326.7287706a@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOi1vP8-Fz2FABJZdt6_aZq_TNGFBhGuanV-n9kBvdFmyRMsyw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Ilya,

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:21:52 +0300 Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> > Sage: that ceph tree commit has no Signed-off-by from its
> > committer :-(  The same is true for almost all the commits in the ceph
> > tree ... and the committer (Ilya) is not listed as a maintainer of that
> > tree ... and its on github :-(
> 
> Well, it has Signed-off-by from a person who is listed as a maintainer
> of fs/ceph (Zheng).  We share the same tree for three components: rbd
> (drivers/block/rbd.c), cephfs (fs/ceph) and libceph (net/ceph) which is
> used by both rbd and cephfs (we should probably split libceph into its
> own MAINTAINERS entry).  The volume of commits is not that high and
> we prefer to not clutter our 30-40 commits per cycle with a bunch of
> merges, so when one of us rebases the committer stamp gets wiped.

Then the person who rebases it must add a Signed-off-by line since they
are then on the handling path from the author to Linus.

> As for github, is that a bad thing?  ceph-client.git is certainly not
> the only github tree in linux-next.

Yeah, it just means that I am a bit more suspicious of things there.
You are *not* listed in my contacts for the ceph tree not are you
listed in the MAINTAINERS file for that tree.

Also the tree listed in MAINTAINERS is:

T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb•auug.org.au

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-26  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-26  1:17 linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the ceph tree Stephen Rothwell
2015-06-26  8:21 ` Ilya Dryomov
2015-06-26  8:33   ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
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