From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750996AbVJBHHX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:07:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751000AbVJBHHX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:07:23 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:63431 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbVJBHHW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 03:07:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 00:07:12 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document from line in patch format Message-Id: <20051002000712.4689bbb2.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <433F860C.7050807@gmail.com> References: <20051002062135.32334.32895.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <433F860C.7050807@gmail.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tony wrote: > > + listed in the last "Signed-off-by:" line in the message when Linus > ^^^^ > Shouldn't this be the first? When I sent a patch with no "from" line, and two "Signed-off-by" lines (the patch that prompted this excursion into documentation excellence) Linus stated that the patch author ended up coming from the second "Signed-off-by" line. Perhaps it "should" be the first (actually - I tend to agree), but it seems that it "is" the last. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401