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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'upstream-davem' branch of wireless-2.6 (2008-01-21)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:39:22 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122.043922.217671583.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801221253.40347.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>

From: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:53:40 +0100

> > What I usually expect, when it isn't clear, is that the first
> > "Signed-off-by:" I see is what I use at the author.
> 
> Hmm, then the fault doesn't seem to be on my side.
> 
> $ git show commit 0196c6a4aec1e420a6bd0b420ff1768fec059d4d
> 
> (on the wireless-2.6/everything tree) shows:
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
>     Acked-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
>     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Right.

I suspect John used the standard GIT email patch applying
scripts which uses the From: as the patch author by default.

That, among other reasons, is why I apply patches manually
and don't use the automated scripts.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 20:28 Please pull 'upstream-davem' branch of wireless-2.6 (2008-01-21) John W. Linville
2008-01-22  1:05 ` David Miller
2008-01-22  7:56 ` Holger Schurig
2008-01-22 10:24   ` David Miller
2008-01-22 11:53     ` Holger Schurig
2008-01-22 12:39       ` David Miller [this message]
2008-01-22 11:54   ` Stefano Brivio
2008-01-22 14:51     ` John W. Linville
2008-01-22 14:54       ` John W. Linville

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