Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the tip tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:55:42 +1100

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:25:18 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Commit
> > 
> >   44d5c715330c ("x86/mm: Create asm/invpcid.h")
> > 
> > is missing a Signed-off-by from its committer.  
> 
> Yes. That's from the PTI work in progress branch. It was high flux so we
> did not care much about those details and the patches went back and forth
> between various people. So if we would have done that by the book we'd have
> something like.
> 
> SOB: tglx
> SOB: peterz
> SOB: mingo
> SOB: tglx
> SOB: mingo
> SOB: tglx
> 
> We'll clean that up for the final version

Then it should not be in linux-next ...  linux-next is *not* a development tree.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell