Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v4] staging: pi433: Fixes minor typo errors

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 05:51:17 EST


On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 11:45:20AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, harsha wrote:
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> > From: Harsha Sharma <harshasharmaiitr@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Fixes checkpatch warning -- "occured" and "succesfully" are misspelled
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harsha Sharma <harshasharmaiitr@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes in v4:
> > -Correct the format of the subject.
> > -Signed-off properly.
>
> It's not signed off properly. Like Greg just said (maybe the mails
> crossed), the sign off needs to be the same as the From line. This
> probably relates to your git configuration or your mailer. Send the patch
> to yourself before sending it out on the mailing list to be sure that
> everything is ok.
>

This is actually OK-ish... It's better when we don't have the extra
From: and there is no need for that with gmail, but we sometimes allow
it for companies which have broken mailservers.

regards,
dan carpenter