Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman patch authorship mangled

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:43:11PM +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> the last patchset sent by Andrew contained a few errors regarding the 
> authorship due to incorrect handling on our side. We did not notice these 
> issues until the patches went out to get included by you.

Ick.

> Here is the complete list of incorrect assignments:
>  * should be Linus instead of Simon
>  => [PATCH 07/26] staging:batman-adv: Remove dead max addr and obsolete 
> VIS_FORMAT strings
>  => [PATCH 09/26] staging:batman-adv: Update README about vis raw output
> 
>  * should be Luis instead of Marek
>  => [PATCH 12/26] staging:batman-adv: fix whitespace style issues
> 
>  * should be Sven instead of Marek
>  => [PATCH 24/26] staging:batman-adv: Fix whitespace problems criticized by 
> checkpatch.pl
>  => [PATCH 25/26] staging:batman-adv: Reduce max characters on a line to 80
> 
> Is there any way to correct the authors of the patches in question ? I know 
> that modifying the git history to fix the author will change all following 
> hashes and everyone has to rebase its tree.
> Personally, I'm not so worried about Linus & Sven, since they are longterm 
> contributors and somewhat close to the project. I'm sure a beer or two can 
> compensate them for the loss of fame. Luis on the other hand seemed to be 
> quite thrilled about getting his patch in and I'd rather not leave him with 
> the impression we don't want to credit him for his work.

Hm, ok, I'll try to rebase the whole tree :(

Can you resend me the set of 26 patches with the correct authorship set
so I know I get it right?

thanks,

greg k-h