Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
>>It's being uploaded right now, the git tree is already up-to-date, and by 
>>the time this hits the mailing list the mirroring of the tar-ball will 
>>hopefully be done too.
>>
>>And since Jeff wrote me a shortlog script for git, the easist way to tell
>>what's new since -rc5 is to just do the shortlog and diffstat output. 
>>Network drivers, USB and CPU-freq stand out.
>>
>>And the good news is that people do seem to have taken my rumblings about 
>>calming down for 2.6.12 seriously. Let's hope that pans out, and I can 
>>release that one asap.. But give this a good beating first, and holler 
>>(again, if you must) about any issues you have,
> 
> 
> 
>>Pavel Machek:
>>  fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
> 
> 
> This one was from Dmitry, and git logs know that:
> 
> author Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Fri, 27 May 2005 12:53:03 -0700
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat, 28 May 2005 11:14:01 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
> 
>     Do not send empty events to gpm.  (Keyboards are assumed to have scroll
>     wheel these days, that makes them part-mouse.  That means typing on
>     keyboard generates empty mouse events).
> 
>     From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
> 
> ...perhaps shortlog script needs some updating?


In git-whatchanged, you are listed as the author:


> diff-tree c1e4c8d3ee3300f363a52fd4cf3d90fdf5098f5a (from 8bd7f125e2f217c8aa3dff0
> Author: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> Date:   Fri May 27 12:53:03 2005 -0700
>     
>     [PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console
>     
>     Do not send empty events to gpm.  (Keyboards are assumed to have scroll
>     wheel these days, that makes them part-mouse.  That means typing on
>     keyboard generates empty mouse events).
>     
>     From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

'^Author: ' is what git-shortlog looks at.

Regards,

	Jeff