Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

Jeff Garzik
2005-06-06T20:00:37Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>It's being uploaded right now, the git tree is already up-to-date, and by
>>the time this hits the mailing list the mirroring of the tar-ball will
>>hopefully be done too.
>>
>>And since Jeff wrote me a shortlog script for git, the easist way to tell
>>what's new since -rc5 is to just do the shortlog and diffstat output.
>>Network drivers, USB and CPU-freq stand out.
>>
>>And the good news is that people do seem to have taken my rumblings about
>>calming down for 2.6.12 seriously. Let's hope that pans out, and I can
>>release that one asap.. But give this a good beating first, and holler
>>(again, if you must) about any issues you have,
>
>
>
>>Pavel Machek:
>> fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
>
>
> This one was from Dmitry, and git logs know that:
>
> author Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Fri, 27 May 2005 12:53:03 -0700
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat, 28 May 2005 11:14:01 -0700
>
> [PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
>
> Do not send empty events to gpm. (Keyboards are assumed to have scroll
> wheel these days, that makes them part-mouse. That means typing on
> keyboard generates empty mouse events).
>
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
>
> ...perhaps shortlog script needs some updating?

In git-whatchanged, you are listed as the author:

> diff-tree c1e4c8d3ee3300f363a52fd4cf3d90fdf5098f5a (from 8bd7f125e2f217c8aa3dff0
> Author: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Date: Fri May 27 12:53:03 2005 -0700
>
> [PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
>
> Do not send empty events to gpm. (Keyboards are assumed to have scroll
> wheel these days, that makes them part-mouse. That means typing on
> keyboard generates empty mouse events).
>
> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

'^Author: ' is what git-shortlog looks at.

Regards,

Jeff