From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934322AbYAaXZh (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:25:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754581AbYAaXZ3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:25:29 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:52673 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752872AbYAaXZ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:25:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:24:35 +1100 (EST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@www.l.google.com To: Jaroslav Kysela cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Takashi Iwai , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [ALSA PATCH] alsa-git merge request In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > Linus, please pull from [the linus branch at]: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git linus Hmm. This has a number of commits that have a questionable sign-off history (I complained about the same thing for the networking code). Namely you cannot follow the path from "author" -> "committer" through the sign-offs. The reason seems to be that you are using some automatic service for your hg/git gateway, and your committer information gets corrupted by that. Please don't do this. I realize that Sign-offs don't always exist for the whole path - we do take one-liners or otherwise known-ok patches from sources without the sign-off of the author (ie not the normal (a) case for the initial sign-off) - but the *normal* case should be that the whole path from author->committer should be covered. There is absolutely zero value in an automated "committer" field. Please fix your hg gateway to not do this kind of crap. Linus