Re: Signed-off-by: (was Re: [PATCH] exfat: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Nov 24 2019 - 01:59:53 EST


On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 09:09:18PM -0500, Valdis KlÄtnieks wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:52:21 +0800, kbuild test robot said:
> > From: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > fs/exfat/file.c:50:10-11: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function 'exfat_allow_set_time' with return type bool
>
> The warning and fix themselves look OK..
>
> > Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> But somehow, this strikes me as fishy.
>
> Or more correctly, it looks reasonable to me, but seems to clash with the
> Developer's Certificate of Origin as described in submitting-patches.rst, which
> makes the assumption that the patch submitter is a carbon-based life form. In
> particular, I doubt the kbuild test robot can understand the thing, and I have
> *no* idea who/what ends up owning the GPLv2 copyright on software automatically
> created by other software.
>
> Or are we OK on this?

We are ok with this, it's been happening for years and we talked about
it with lawyers when it first happened. So nothing to really worry
about here.

thanks,

greg k-h