Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable errors

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:58:48AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Ok, indeed. Also, in the future, if you take patches from others please also 
> credit them in the changelog. Something like this would have been good in the 
> current case:
> 
>   Also, this patch includes a change from Nagananda Chumbalkar as well, which 
>   drops tainting in the therma throttling code for a similar reason: crossing a
>   thermal threshold does not mean corruption.
> 
> Nagananda's Acked-by is there so there's at least partial credit - but we 
> generally try to aim for at least 100% credit where credit is due :-)

Absolutely, and in the light of recent events :) I'm still not sure how
to do that though in a straight-forward manner so that it is visible at
a first glance. Sure, adding freeform text to the commit message is one
way. Using a SOB chain might work too - even the Acked-by tag - but all
those have another main purpose and are being repurposed for annotating
the fact that a patch is the result of more than one author's thought
process.

IOW, in case I'm not missing anything, we don't really have a way to
denote a multiple authorship, correct? And we should...

Thanks.

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