Re: [PATCH 08/11] transport-pci: Introduce virtio extended capability

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 04 2023, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 09:54:55AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 04 2023, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 01:58:31AM +0300, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> >> PCI device configuration space for capabilities is limited to only 192
>> >> bytes shared by many PCI capabilities of generic PCI device and virtio
>> >> specific.
>> >> 
>> >> Hence, introduce virtio extended capability that uses PCI Express
>> >> extended capability.
>> >> Subsequent patch uses this virtio extended capability.
>> >> 
>> >> Co-developed-by: Satananda Burla <sburla@marvell.com>
>> >
>> > What does it "Co-developed-by" mean exactly that Signed-off-by
>> > does not?
>> 
>> AIUI, "Co-developed-by:" is more akin to a second "Author:", i.e. to
>> give attribution. (Linux kernel rules actually state that any
>> "Co-developed-by:" must be followed by a "Signed-off-by:" for that
>> author, but we don't really do DCO here, the S-o-b is more of a
>> convention.)
>
>
> Actually, we might want to generally, to signify agreement to the IPR.
> How about adding this to our rules?  But in this case Satananda Burla is
> a TC member so yes, no problem.

Adding a s-o-b requirement is not a bad idea... do you want to propose
an update?