Re: [GIT] Networking

Linus Torvalds
2011-09-19T01:15:18Z

Hmm. I *think* the right person for patchwork issues is Jeremy Kerr,
but I migth be wrong..

Jeremy, the fact that apparently patchworks loses proper names is a
killer feature - but very much in the wrong meaning of "killer". Any
way to make sure that doesn't happen?

Linus

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:01:17 -0400
>
>> On 09/18/2011 02:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> 2011/9/17 David Miller<davem@davemloft.net>:
>>>> dpward (2):
>>>>       net: Make flow cache namespace-aware
>>>>       net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cache
>>>>
>>>> nhorman (1):
>>>>       net: don't clear IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE in ether_setup
>>>>
>>>> rajan.aggarwal85@gmail.com (1):
>>>>       net/can/af_can.c: Change del_timer to del_timer_sync
>>> Guys, if somebody has such a broken email setup that they don't even
>>> show their own name, don't take patches from them.
>>
>> At least in my case, that is Patchwork's fault.  My name only started
>> showing up like that in commits after I registered for an account
>> (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/register/), and I don't see any way to
>> change the way my name appears in the Patchwork profile options.
>>
>> The emails I sent to the netdev list showed my full name; see:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=131527867326729&w=2
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=131527879226819&w=2
>
> I hope some mechanism can be created to undo this behavior.
>