Re: [GIT PULL] rv fixes for v7.1

[Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2026-06-04 at 08:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:42:02 +0200
> Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > All this to say that, in my opinion unknownbbqrx
> > <dev@unknownbbqr.xyz>
> > is NOT an anonymous contribution, just a nickname that differs from
> > the legal name of this person (which we wouldn't validate anyway),
> > so I would say it complies with the rules.
> 
> It's a username on github and not a nickname. I did a search for
> "unknownbbqr" and it doesn't come up anywhere but Google tries to
> find similar matches which brings me to an OnlyFans account :-p
> 
> It *DOES NOT* qualify because there's no accountability for this. For
> people who have a nickname as their entire internet persona, sure,
> I'll take patches from them as there's an entity that exists behind
> it.
> But I'm not going to take some username on github as a persona. To
> me, that's still anonymous.

Alright, fair. In the link I sent, the signoff got changed to Ali Ahmet
MEMIS <dev@unknownbbqr.xyz>, but I believe we cannot use that unless
the user themselves adds it (and they seem unreachable).

I posted the re-authored patch in [1], I'm not sure that's the proper
way though (the patch is so simple that is unmodified). But if you give
me a green light I can send you a pull request with that patch instead.

Thanks,
Gabriele

[1] -
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260604120946.90302-2-gmonaco@redhat.com/

> 
> -- Steve