Dear Scott Wood,
In message 1349979213.6903.11@snotra you wrote:
I've been signing off patches I apply to the NAND tree. I recall stopping at one point in the past because someone complained, and then starting again -- not sure if someone else complained about doing it *that* way, or if I just noticed others doing it.
Looking through the history I see others that seems to be doing the same (outside ARMland), though I can't say for sure without investigating whether the patch was "passed on without any changes" in each instance.
It appears there are companies who evaluate their engineers based on the number of statistical data (including SoB lines in public repositories). Sosome cases such doing may be just some form of collecting brownie points...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk