From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751120AbVJBQ2Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:28:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751122AbVJBQ2Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:28:25 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:48842 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120AbVJBQ2Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:28:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:28:15 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: adaplas@gmail.com, 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: <20051002092815.46ba1b69.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20051002062135.32334.32895.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <433F860C.7050807@gmail.com> <20051002000712.4689bbb2.pj@sgi.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 Linus wrote: > No. If there is no "From:" at the top of the body, the authorship is taken > from the "From:" from the _email_. So _that_ is the real reason it's called the "from" line, not the "author" line. Now it is making more sense. New patch v2 coming soon. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401