[GIT PULL] Basic StarFive JH7100 RISC-V SoC support for 5.17

Emil Renner Berthing kernel at esmil.dk
Wed Dec 15 04:27:03 PST 2021


On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 13:17, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:25 PM Emil Renner Berthing <kernel at esmil.dk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 22:30, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:06 PM Emil Renner Berthing <kernel at esmil.dk> wrote:
> > > I just got through my backlog of pull request and got to yours. All of
> > > the contents look
> > > fine but I noticed that there is no tag description. Please sign the
> > > tag with a gpg
> > > key and add a description that explains the contents of the branch in your own
> > > words, the same way you write the introductory mail of a patch series. This will
> > > become the description of the merge commit.
> >
> > Ah, gotcha. The thing is that I don't actually have a gpg key at the
> > moment. I can generate one and use that to sign it, but then it won't
> > be part of the web of trust.
> > Alternatively I can just send it as a series of patches with a cover
> > letter like I did before. That would be a little easier for me, but
> > what do you prefer?
>
> I'd prefer a pull request. The most important bit to me is actually the
> tag description, not the signature. I'll go through the contents once
> more anyway, which should be enough for me to merge it.
>
> A signed tag is still better than one without a signature, that way at
> least your key is part of the git history and we can confirm that another
> pull request came was signed with the same key, even if we don't know
> who you are ;-)
>
> When you create a new key, please follow the directions from
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
> andyway, so you can add it to the keyring after you have collected the
> signatures.

Nice, I'll try to follow that then. Thanks!

/Emil



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