From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754776Ab1J1DB3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:01:29 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:45012 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753503Ab1J1DB2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:01:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:01:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20111027.230120.1348321590012576474.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Cc: marcos.mage@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove quotes of maintaners's names From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <610B86C6-622E-4EFE-89DF-BF09BDB4D765@intel.com> References: <1319739381-5244-1-git-send-email-marcos.mage@gmail.com> <610B86C6-622E-4EFE-89DF-BF09BDB4D765@intel.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:35:54 -0700 > The reason these names are in quotes is because they need to be > wrapped in quotes when used in a git patch (I.e. CC: "David > S. Miller" ) because of the . in the friendly > name. That's correct, if a character such as "." appears in an email header field it must be surrounded by double quotes, as per SMTP rules. VGER rejects any email where this rule is not followed properly.