From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760939AbYFLXOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:14:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755576AbYFLXOT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:14:19 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54396 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753400AbYFLXOT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:14:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080612.161416.82163498.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeff@garzik.org Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver updates for .27 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4851A695.7050706@garzik.org> References: <48519E57.3030906@garzik.org> <20080612.152214.21877307.davem@davemloft.net> <4851A695.7050706@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:33 -0400 > David Miller wrote: > > "Author" is always who wrote the patch, and I think it's important to > > be consistent in that area. > > "always"? There are /plenty/ of occasions, usually at big corps, where > the Author is not the person who wrote the patch, but rather the person > who sent the patch. > > And you'll note that all Linus's tools capture that -- author is patch > sender -- albeit with optional From parsing from patch commit description. I guess that's a compelling enough argument. I'll pull your original tree, thanks Jeff.