From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:21:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20080225222100.GL2659@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080225155959.11268.35541.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <20080225160108.11268.1451.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <20080225220601.GH2659@elf.ucw.cz> <20080225221947.GA2852@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Gregory Haskins , mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bill.huey@gmail.com, kevin@hilman.org, cminyard@mvista.com, dsingleton@mvista.com, dwalker@mvista.com, npiggin@suse.de, dsaxena@plexity.net, ak@suse.de, acme@redhat.com, sdietrich@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, mkohari@novell.com To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:57563 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760852AbYBYWUg (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:20:36 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080225221947.GA2852@suse.de> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon 2008-02-25 14:19:47, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > > From: Sven Dietrich > > > > Why is this good idea? > > It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git. > Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of > the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times > (like this one.) Sorry, that was not what I meant. The patch had no changelog at the top, and I was complaining about that fact. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html