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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:50:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080513115009.61d8ad39@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqxisciu.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

> Those would just default to not being credited. Where is the problem?

We need to be sure that people understand that when submitting patches
they must not put Discovered-by: lines in without asking. This is
essentially a documentation matter which is why I directed the original
reply to Jonathan.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 17:27 Tracking and crediting bug reporters Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-12 17:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-12 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-12 20:52   ` David Miller
2008-05-12 21:08     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-13 10:51       ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-13 10:50         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-13 16:36           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-12 20:54   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-12 21:11     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-12 21:59       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-12 18:27 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-12 19:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-13 10:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-16 16:35   ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-17 22:53     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-17 23:18       ` Rene Herman
2008-05-18 19:51       ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-13 15:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-14 17:30   ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 10:41 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-21 13:34   ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-21 13:46     ` Pekka Enberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-15  8:02 Roland

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