[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] Zoned block device support improvements

[Bart Van Assche]

On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 11:37 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> > > You keep mentioning this, but I don't recall ever seeing anything to
> > > that effect. The rest of the kernel appears to be either arbitrary
> > > ordering or favoring author SoB as the first tag.
> > 
> > I've always felt the proper order is how Jens likes it too (all dm
> > commits from me follow that order).
> 
> That's fine, I don't have any particular preference. And I don't have
> any issue with you guys sticking to a certain ordering in your
> respective subsystems. I occasionally shuffle tags when I commit things
> in SCSI too.
> 
> I just think it should be properly documented if there is a preferred
> way to order things...

When I tried to look up documentation for this I couldn't find anything under
the Documentation directory. Maybe it's there but I didn't look carefully
enough. All I could find on the web is e-mails from Linus in which he explains
that the order of Signed-off-by's should match the chain of authorship.

Bart.