Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 mlx5-next 06/13] vfio: Fix VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_SET_ERROR macro

From: Cornelia Huck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:57:59 +0200

On Tue, Oct 26 2021, Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:32:08PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26 2021, Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:32:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Oct 26 2021, Yishai Hadas <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Fixed the non-compiled macro VFIO_DEVICE_STATE_SET_ERROR (i.e. SATE
>> >> > instead of STATE).
>> >> >
>> >> > Fixes: a8a24f3f6e38 ("vfio: UAPI for migration interface for device state")
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <[email-masked]>
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
>> >> 
>> >> This s-o-b chain looks weird; your s-o-b always needs to be last.
>> >
>> > It is not such clear as it sounds.
>> >
>> > Yishai is author of this patch and at some point of time, this patch passed
>> > through my tree and it will pass again, when we will merge it. This is why
>> > my SOB is last and not Yishai's.
>> 
>> Strictly speaking, the chain should be Yishai->you->Yishai and you'd add
>> your s-o-b again when you pick it. Yeah, that looks like overkill; the
>> current state just looks weird to me, but I'll shut up now.
>
> We will get checkpatch warning about duplicated signature.
>
> WARNING: Duplicate signature
> #11:
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 86 lines checked

...this looks more like a bug in checkpatch to me, as it is possible for
a patch to go through the same person twice.

But I'll really shut up now.