RE: [Xen-devel] Re: signed-off-by process

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Keir, since you modified Jimi's patch, this is not in 
> keeping with paragraph (c) of the Developer Certificate of 
> Origin 
> (http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_d
> co.html).
> 
> If you don't like a submitted patch as-is, I think the 
> options are either:
> a) ask the original author to resubmit the patch
> b) check in the patch unmodified, then check in your 
> modifications afterwards
> 
> In most cases, a) is probably preferable.

Yep, everyone should feel duly reminded.

For trivial patch modifications this sometime feels needless overkill,
but we need to follow the DCO precisely.   

Ian

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