* Re: [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters [not found] ` <20050913160412.GH3570@localhost.localdomain> @ 2005-09-14 7:36 ` Rusty Russell 2005-09-14 20:03 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Rusty Russell @ 2005-09-14 7:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai; +Cc: linux-arch 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters 2005-09-14 7:36 ` [patch 6/11] mm: Bigrefs -- distributed refcounters Rusty Russell @ 2005-09-14 20:03 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai @ 2005-09-14 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Rusty Russell; +Cc: linux-arch 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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