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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition
 rescan)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:36:01 -0700
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Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> > >(But Andrew never saw your email, I suspect: "akpm@suse.de" is
>> > probably
>> > >some strange mixup of Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen in your mind ;)
>> >
>> > What do the letters kp stand for?
> 
> Heh ... I've always wanted to know that myself. It's funny, no one
> seems to have asked that on lkml during all these years (at least none
> that a Google search would throw up).
> 
>> "Keep Patching" ?
> 
> Unlikely. "akpm" seems to be a pre-Linux-kernel nick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29

	-hpa