Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:15:48AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 23:09, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Linus,
> > 
> > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:40:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > (...)
> > > -        Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.0
> > > +        Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
> > (...)
> > >  then you just add a line saying
> > >  
> > >  	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Why not change this slightly to something like :
> > 
> >        DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > which would imply that this person has read (and agreed with) version 1.1 ?
> >
> 
> Ugh, that's ugly, long and redundant. You could have:
> 
>       DCO-m.n: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> but it still looks ugly.   

Well, it could be anything ugly. The advantage of keeping the "Signed-off-by"
is that tools which already rely on this string will still find it.

Willy

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