From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:03:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BF1C96.1060100@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802220827520.19896@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This isn't a problem with things like "Signed-off-by:" etc tags, because
> they have no automated meaning and don't really change the commit itself,
> but the "From:"/"Date:"/"Subject:" markers at the head of the message
> really do have real meaning, and get removed from the commit message and
> instead get put into the SCM headers.
>
It may be worth having a definitive and unambiguous Author: tag then,
which can appear among Signed-off-by:s and is used in preference to
anything else. From: is a useful heuristic which seems to work well in
general, but as you say, it gets a bit hairy when you have something
which means different things to different parts of the software stack at
the same time.
J
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 21:03 [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-21 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-21 21:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-21 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-21 21:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-21 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-22 12:18 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-22 19:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
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