On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:31:27PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
quoted text
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:31:06 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > You can post whatever patches you like a million times to lkml.
> > That's not the problem.
> > 
> > It's that the patches don't get reviewed, posting them more or to a
> > different place doesn't help that.
> 
> If you really want to enforce this, I bet it could be automated
> with scripts around git.
> 
> Simply refuse to apply a patch that does not have at least two
> Signed-off-by/Reviewed-by/Acked-by lines and refuse to apply
> a "git pull" if there is a changeset like that in the tree.

Yeah, right.
commit 138fe4e069798d9aa948a5402ff15e58f483ee4e
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek <ketuzsezr@darnok.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 9 19:50:41 2008 -0700

    Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support
...
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
    Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
    Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
    Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
...
+static ssize_t sprintf_ipaddr(char *buf, u8 *ip)
+{
...
+               str += sprintf(str, NIP6_FMT, ntohs(ip[0]), ntohs(ip[1]),
+                              ntohs(ip[2]), ntohs(ip[3]), ntohs(ip[4]),
+                              ntohs(ip[5]), ntohs(ip[6]), ntohs(ip[7]));

are you going to tell me that this had been reviewed?  Note these
ntohs() applied to 8bit values in there.  Two signed-off-by, including
Greg "two s-o-b are enough to guarantee review"...
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