From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753875AbXITUWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:22:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751181AbXITUWB (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:22:01 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:50474 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbXITUWA (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:22:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:21:56 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Wolfgang Walter , Neil Brown , Trond Myklebust , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpc: fix garbage in printk in svc_tcp_accept() Message-ID: <20070920202156.GF23287@fieldses.org> References: <20070920195146.GC23287@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:15:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > we upgraded the kernel of a nfs-server from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.22.6. Since > > then we get the message > ... > > Bruce - you're losing authorship information. Whoops, yes, I usually rely on git-send-email to do that, but was sending the patch by hand this time in a hurry, reading the commit into my mail client, and forgot the From: line. Thanks for catching that. > So that "always explicitly say who the author is" is a good idea, but when > forwarding somebody elses patch, it's *more* than a good idea - at that > point it's absolutely required for proper attribution. Yeah, I know. Apologies.--b.