Re: [Intel-gfx] linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drm-intel tree

[Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>]

+ Dave as FYI

Quoting Daniel Vetter (2021-08-10 09:27:25)
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 09:19:39AM -0700, Matt Roper wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:05:59PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 09:36:56AM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> > > > Hi Matt,
> > > > 
> > > > Always use the dim tooling when applying patches, it will do the right
> > > > thing with regards to adding the S-o-b.
> > > 
> > > fd.o server rejects any pushes that haven't been done by dim, so how did
> > > this get through?
> > 
> > I definitely used dim for all of these patches, but I'm not sure how I
> > lost my s-o-b on this one.  Maybe when I edited the commit message after
> > 'dim extract-tags' I accidentally deleted an extra line when I removed
> > the extract-tags marker?  It's the only patch where the line is missing,
> > so it's almost certainly human error on my part rather than something
> > dim did wrong.
> 
> Yeah that's an expected failure model, and dim is supposed to catch that
> by rechecking for sobs when you push. See dim_push_branch ->
> checkpatch_commit_push_range in dim. So you can hand-edit stuff however
> you want, dim /should/ catch it when pushing. That it didn't is kinda
> confusing and I'd like to know why that slipped through.
> 
> > > Matt, can you pls figure out and type up the patch to
> > > plug that hole?
> > 
> > Are you referring to a patch for dim here?  The i915 patch has already
> > landed, so we can't change its commit message now.
> 
> Yeah dim, not drm-intel, that can't be fixed anymore because it's all
> baked in.
> -Daniel
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Daniel
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Regards, Joonas
> > > > 
> > > > Quoting Stephen Rothwell (2021-07-15 07:18:54)
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Commit
> > > > > 
> > > > >   db47fe727e1f ("drm/i915/step: s/<platform>_revid_tbl/<platform>_revids")
> > > > > 
> > > > > is missing a Signed-off-by from its committer.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Stephen Rothwell
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Daniel Vetter
> > > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > > http://blog.ffwll.ch
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matt Roper
> > Graphics Software Engineer
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> > Intel Corporation
> > (916) 356-2795
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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