[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel

commit af45f32d25cc1e374184675eadc9f740221d8392
tree 54e804d974dbd1d262fe78d14c8d384cfaea9df4
parent 9bb25bf36f0d7b06368432e2324dbbc2e98b5e60
author Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 1158118552 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1158157934 -0700

[PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel

The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the
kernel.  As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the
open.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 2cd7f02..d42ab4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ then you just add a line saying
 
 	Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
 
+using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
+
 Some people also put extra tags at the end.  They'll just be ignored for
 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
 point out some special detail about the sign-off.