From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@studentenwerk.mhn.de>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Trond Myklebust <trond@netapp.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpc: fix garbage in printk in svc_tcp_accept()
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:21:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920202156.GF23287@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709201310230.16478@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:15:05PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > we upgraded the kernel of a nfs-server from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.22.6. Since
> > then we get the message
> ...
>
> Bruce - you're losing authorship information.
Whoops, yes, I usually rely on git-send-email to do that, but was
sending the patch by hand this time in a hurry, reading the commit into
my mail client, and forgot the From: line. Thanks for catching that.
> So that "always explicitly say who the author is" is a good idea, but when
> forwarding somebody elses patch, it's *more* than a good idea - at that
> point it's absolutely required for proper attribution.
Yeah, I know. Apologies.--b.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 19:51 [PATCH] rpc: fix garbage in printk in svc_tcp_accept() J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-20 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-20 20:21 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
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