From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761258AbWLINsK (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:48:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761260AbWLINsK (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:48:10 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:55682 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761258AbWLINsI (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:48:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=AbMh8mlqWUVfDDj94BP8syzu4+z2kDqNO3m1duIjkLla0GI37vTOorwM2VjI9e9XRdk/KOGaEl2hFxE47foLiUMYK3o4De/2UxoFA31GyM0tgJI0nI6b8SXi3JBxngU1pWdY9Y5Y+T63cvVYlRFkjJJ0jHQ0U9HrvGrXOK0e0qM= Message-ID: <84144f020612090548r50a8ffaflb35ebbcd3e944e6a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:48:06 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"? Cc: "Linux kernel mailing list" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 742b87987e9db105 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > perhaps i'm just being clueless about the authorship protocol here, > but i'm a bit hacked off by noticing that at least one submitted patch > of mine was apparently re-submitted (albeit slightly modified) a few > days later by another poster and applied under that poster's name. > > on sun, dec 3, i submitted to the list: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116516635728664&w=2 It really seems to be Burman Yan's patch from November 22. Notice how your patch still has the redundant cast whereas the applied one doesn't.