From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to send the [PATCH 0/x] kind of emails?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:25:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141214182506.GA4332@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC+QLdT1c=cWMU8QsYvbs2ELepJg0Q8Do92tfKUujtO2iNnRLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:18:54AM -0800, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
> >
> > Have you asked the original author about this? There has to be some
> > reason the patch was not accepted, right? Try asking them what happened
>
> No, because the email address recorded in the patch is no longer valid.
If that's the case, then I can't accept an invalid "From:" line on a
patch, sorry. I need an address of someone that will be responsible for
it.
So in that case, put your address as a "From:" and in the body say,
"Originally written by .... but forward ported by me" or something to
that affect.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-14 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-12 22:05 How to send the [PATCH 0/x] kind of emails? Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-12 22:27 ` Greg KH
2014-12-12 22:29 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-13 4:02 ` Greg KH
2014-12-13 6:36 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-13 13:25 ` Greg KH
2014-12-14 17:18 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-14 18:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-12-15 1:12 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-12 22:27 ` Mandeep Sandhu
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