Re: [PATCH 4.19 092/190] drm/nouveau: Dont WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures

Ilia Mirkin
2019-09-13T14:49:10Z

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:46 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> >Hi Greg,
> >
> >This feels like it's missing a From: line.
> >
> >commit b513a18cf1d705bd04efd91c417e79e4938be093
> >Author: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> >Date: Mon Jan 28 16:03:50 2019 -0500
> >
> > drm/nouveau: Don't WARN_ON VCPI allocation failures
> >
> >Is this an artifact of your notification-of-patches process and I
> >never noticed before, or was the patch ingested incorrectly?
>
> It was always like this for patches that came through me. Greg's script
> generates an explicit "From:" line in the patch, but I never saw the
> value in that since git does the right thing by looking at the "From:"
> line in the mail header.

That's right -- the email's From header gets used in the case of no
explicit From in the email body. But Greg is sending the emails From:
Greg, so if I were to ingest that email, I would end up with a patch
From: Greg, not From: Lyude as it ought to be.

Cheers,

-ilia