Re: [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters

Re: [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters

[Rusty Russell]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:04 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com>

This is the second time this has happened in as many weeks, by different
people  Obviously, I can spell my own name, know my own email address,
and did not sign off on this patch.

If Signed-off lines have a purpose, that is destroyed by fake ones.
Worse, a future lawyer can now convincingly argue that many
correctly-spelled Signed-off lines are worthless fakes, too.

A few well-placed private slaps on wrists can probably prevent this
becoming common practice.

Rusty.
PS. Of course, it's only the dumb ones being caught at the moment.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman

Re: [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:36:14PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:04 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com>
> 
> This is the second time this has happened in as many weeks, by different
> people  Obviously, I can spell my own name, know my own email address,

I am extremely sorry

> and did not sign off on this patch.

I thought the following was applicable here: (from SubmittingPatches)

        (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
            of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
            license and I have the right under that license to submit that
            work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
            by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
            permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
            in the file; or

And since it was publised on lkml (and the signoff process was not in
place then), I thought I could sign you off with a cc.  I even added the url
to your original posting. I guess I was wrong. Really sorry :(.

> 
> A few well-placed private slaps on wrists can probably prevent this
> becoming common practice.

Ouch.  I have learnt my lesson.

Btw, what is linux-arch for?  I couldn't find the listinfo on vger-lists.

Thanks,
Kiran