From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261576AbUCPTs1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:48:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261586AbUCPTrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:47:21 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:21262 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261576AbUCPTqD (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:46:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:45:59 +0000 From: Russell King To: Linus Torvalds , Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: TLD.rmk.(none) junk in BitKeeper logs where BK_HOST belongs? Message-ID: <20040316194559.D7886@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Linux-Kernel mailing list References: <20040316184455.GA31710@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040316191454.GK17813@bitmover.com> <20040316194153.GA15282@merlin.emma.line.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040316194153.GA15282@merlin.emma.line.org>; from matthias.andree@gmx.de on Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:41:54PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:41:54PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > He does it on purpose. Apparently there is some UK law that may make it > > illegal to export other peoples email addresses without express consent, > > so rmk corrupts them with a script.. > > Two notes: > 1. > This could be handled by only including patches of those people who > consent to their address being published, This requires me to keep a database of peoples addresses who have consented. No thanks, that's a huge overhead and waste of time. > 2. > The user does not have to give a routable mail address in > BK_USER/BK_HOST, but he can set BK_HOST to whatever he wants. Indeed, so I set BK_HOST to something else. > If the whole corruption is intentional, then I'd suggest that RMK > participates in the maintenance of the lk-changelog.pl aka. shortlog > script. Again, no thanks, I'm already busy enough as it is. > I have no chance to resolve common names through > google/lbdb/grep -r on the suspect source files unless the address is > there. There are so many people called Jonas Larsson - how do I know if > that fellow has a middle name? Have a look in the changesets themselves - you'll find the line "Patch from" in them, so you can pick out the real persons name from that - even automatically via a suitable regexp. Sorry for being so unco-operative on this issue, but I'm doing my best already. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core