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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 1/5] ACPI, APEI, Fix APEI related table size checking
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
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> Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

BTW.

If the patch is substantially the same as the original,
then the method to credit the original author is to
start the patch body with:

From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

and you can choose to note your changes in the signed-off part,
like akpm typically does, or not.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center