From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: The authorship of each patch in a series
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:00:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2145124.u7O7SYQ4Ez@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTB7wPzE6z5ipd0C@kroah.com>
On Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:22:40 AM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > [...]
> > How can we achieve this?
>
> Commit the patches to your local tree with the correct authorship
> information (some from you, some from them), and then when you create
> the patch series, the correct names will show up in the email as who
> authored them as the "From:" line.
>
> Try it locally and see, this happens all the time in kernel development.
>
> As an example, see all of the stable-kernel -rc release announcements
> with the patches in them. The original authorship is preserved just
> fine.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
Thank you very much, we will use your suggestion to send that series for
staging-test as soon as it is fully refined and properly tested.
Regards,
Fabio
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2021-09-02 7:13 The authorship of each patch in a series Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-09-02 7:22 ` Greg KH
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