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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: "DHANAPAL, GNANACHANDRAN (G.)" <gdhanapa@visteon.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"lambert.quentin@gmail.com" <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>,
	"mdcasey@chabloom.com" <mdcasey@chabloom.com>,
	"julia.lawall@lip6.fr" <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	"kolbeinnkarls@gmail.com" <kolbeinnkarls@gmail.com>,
	"himangi774@gmail.com" <himangi774@gmail.com>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Babu, Viswanathan (V.)" <vbabu3@visteon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8192e: Timer setup using macro rather assignment
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:26:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431966363.2870.24.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150518160528.GA2927@sudip-PC>

On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 21:35 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 02:44:15PM +0000, DHANAPAL, GNANACHANDRAN (G.) wrote:
> > setup_timer is used for timer parameter setup rather than direct
> > assignment
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gnanachandran Dhanapal <gdhanapa@visteon.com>
> 
> your From: name and Signed-off-by: names are not matching. They should
> be same.

If there's a specific "From: " in the _body_ of the email,
that's true, but the sender email "From: " header and the
Signed-off-by: line do not have to match.

A "From: " line in the email body should only be used when
the patch is from a different sender than the sign-off.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-18 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-18 14:44 [PATCH] Staging: rtl8192e: Timer setup using macro rather assignment DHANAPAL, GNANACHANDRAN (G.)
2015-05-18 16:05 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-18 16:26   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-05-18 16:42     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-31  0:26       ` gregkh
2015-05-18 17:49 ` Julia Lawall

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