From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265263AbUE0VKK (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 17:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265274AbUE0VKJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 17:10:09 -0400 Received: from host-65-117-135-105.timesys.com ([65.117.135.105]:47555 "EHLO kartuli.timesys") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265263AbUE0VKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 17:10:04 -0400 Message-ID: <40B6591C.80901@timesys.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:09:48 -0400 From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission References: <20040527062002.GA20872@work.bitmover.com> <20040527010409.66e76397.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040527010409.66e76397.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Larry McVoy wrote: > > >>You currently aren't recording the original author >> >> > >We are, with care. It's in the changelogs. Every single patch which I >didn't originate has a From: line at the start of the changelog. > For patches that I've been involved with, the changelog line almost always mentions one of the intermediate handlers, not the original author. I suspect that Larry is mostly right. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig