Signed-off-by rules for U-Boot

Does U-Boot follow the same Signed-off-by procedures as the Linux kernel, or is s-o-b only relevant in U-Boot for the initial patch submitter, and not maintainers?

I ask because there are a bunch of patches of mine that got applied without the maintainer adding their S-o-b when applying them, which would be very unusual for Linux, but perhaps it's normal for U-Boot?

Some likely non-exhaustive examples are:

2813006fecda usb: ci_udc: allow multiple buffer allocs per ep 66b88b07cdab usb: ums: add error handling for failed registration 264e0e591bbd config: enable CMD_BMP when API+LCD is enabled 53eb768dfb97 aes: make apply_cbc_chain_data non-static

Yet others did get a maintainer s-o-b:

d381294aef4a ARM: tegra: pack pinmux data tables tighter def816a2ba87 mmc: set rca to 1 for MMC cards
91171091c673 ARM: tegra: make use of negative ENV_OFFSET on NVIDIA... 6ab6a650a418 disk: initialize name/part fields when returning a whole... c75942c7b792 sf: winbond: fix page_size

It seems like it mostly varies by maintainer.

Hi Stephen,

Yes, we discussed this in a previous thread, here Wolfgang's answer:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-October/137248.html

It should be normal for U-Boot. I never add my s-o-b to patches that I only merge. Only if I change something I add my s-o-b. If this is not the right rule, I am doing wrong since a lot of time ;-).

Agree we should be consistent. I am not aware that the original rule was changed, even if the behavior is different as the Linux kernel.

Regards,
Stefano

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