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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@timesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission
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On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:09:48PM -0400, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote:
> >We are, with care.  It's in the changelogs.  Every single patch which I
> >didn't originate has a From: line at the start of the changelog.
> >
> For patches that I've been involved with, the changelog line almost always
> mentions one of the intermediate handlers, not the original author.  I 
> suspect that Larry is mostly right.

Up until recently we've had the person doing the BK commit, plus
person they received it from.  That's identical to the two-level chain
of custody which Larry was proposing as being "good enough" most of
the time.  But more recently, there have been changelog comments like
this:

ChangeSet@1.1743.1.52, 2004-05-25 08:43:49-07:00, akpm@osdl.org
  [PATCH] minor sched.c cleanup

  Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@onestepahead.de>
  Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

  The following obviously correct patch from Christian Meder simplifies the
  DELTA() define.

Which do show the original author.  

						- Ted