From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760758AbYBYWUJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:20:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758815AbYBYWTr (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:19:47 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58073 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758682AbYBYWTp (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:19:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:19:47 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek Cc: Gregory Haskins , mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bill.huey@gmail.com, kevin@hilman.org, cminyard@mvista.com, dsingleton@mvista.com, dwalker@mvista.com, npiggin@suse.de, dsaxena@plexity.net, ak@suse.de, acme@redhat.com, sdietrich@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, mkohari@novell.com Subject: Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism Message-ID: <20080225221947.GA2852@suse.de> References: <20080225155959.11268.35541.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <20080225160108.11268.1451.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <20080225220601.GH2659@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080225220601.GH2659@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > From: Sven Dietrich > > Why is this good idea? It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git. Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times (like this one.) thanks, greg k-h