Re: [PATCH net-next v6 04/23] zinc: ChaCha20 x86_64 implementation

On 29 September 2018 at 09:56, Borislav Petkov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 04:01:53AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

quoted

I was wondering about the ordering of these, actually. I've seen s-o-b
on top and s-o-b on bottom of the cc list in lots of commits and
haven't yet divined the One True Position.

Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

section 12, first sentence.

The SOB chain needs to clearly express the path of the patch from
author(s) to the upstream kernel.

Note that this is the author of the *patch* not necessarily the author
of the code.

Anyone is free to submit patches adding code authored by others as
long as the author has made it available under a suitable license, and
this is actually the whole point of the S-o-B: you are stating to the
next guy that the code included in your patch was made available to
you under a compatible license.