Re: [stable] Re: [PATCH 00/22] -stable review

Greg KH
2006-05-18T17:42:38Z

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:15:40PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:36:01PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> >> * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Chris Wright wrote:
> >>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.16.17 release.
> >>>> There are 22 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> >>>> this one.
> >>> I notice that none of the patches have authorship information.
> >>>
> >>> Has that always been true and I just never noticed before?
> >> It has always been that way with my script, I think Greg's as well. Of
> >> course, it's in the patch, and goes into git with proper authorship.
> >
> > The original versions of the patches do have the proper authorship
> > information, it's just that quilt strips it off when generating emails
> > like this.
> >
> > When applying them to the git tree, everything comes out properly and
> > they get the correct authorship information. And the git tools know to
> > properly create the emails with the right From: lines, maybe I should
> > play around with quilt to add that to it too...
>
> While we're on it.. Just another small nitpick. Random patch from this 00/22
> series:
>
> Subject: [PATCH 05/22] [PATCH] smbfs: Fix slab corruption in samba error path
>
> Can the 2nd "[PATCH]" tag be removed as well? ;)

Oops, sorry about that. I've fixed that up for all of the patches now,
I forgot to do that this time around.

thanks,

greg k-h