Re: [PATCH linux-next] PCI: iproc: Remove the unneeded result variable

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Tue Sep 27 2022 - 08:08:06 EST


[+Greg]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:25:20PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 07:16:36AM +0000, cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Return the value iproc_pcie_setup_ib() directly instead of storing it in
> > another redundant variable.
> >
> > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch itself is fine, but was posted by cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx, not by
> "ye xingchen <ye.xingchen@xxxxxxxxxx>", so it needs another signoff
> and full name so the chain is complete. For more details see:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?id=v5.18#n363

Greg, Bjorn,

I believe that appending a SoB like this myself is fine:

Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx>

It is a SOB already in kernel commit logs - I assume
that's the right thing to do in this case, please
let me know if it isn't and what should we do instead.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> Bjorn
>
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