From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265065AbUEYT25 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 15:28:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265068AbUEYT24 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 15:28:56 -0400 Received: from pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.3]:27520 "EHLO pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265065AbUEYT2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 15:28:45 -0400 Message-Id: <200405251928.i4PJSJr25717@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Linus Torvalds cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list , vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 May 2004 20:50:28 MST." X-mailer: MH [Version 6.8.4] X-charset: ISO_8859-1 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:28:18 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds said: [...] > One reason for uniqueness is literally for automatic parsing - having > scripts that pick up on this, and send ACK messages, or do statistics on > who patches tend to go through etc etc. AFAIU, what you really want is to go back 20 years from now and say "See? Lines 257-300 of foo/bar.c were contributed originally by J. Random Hacker (here his signoff), and then modified by Jane Random and George Hacker, and Aunt Tillie's grandson looked it over and blessed it into the official kernel (signoffs here). If you got a problem with that, go talk to them." (that is what SCOundrels would need in place to be discouraged, I'm afraid...). Problem with your proposal for this is that either you keep patches from the source intact (i.e., a bunch of one-liners each signed off separately, signed off each one by the maintainer, plus a patch by said maintainer to beat it all into useable shape) or shift the burden of being able to say later (even _much_ later) that the patch was the bundling and mangling of the individual patches. I.e., this is an idea which was perhaps more appropiate in the olden days when there was no maintainer hierarchy in place yet... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513