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

Michael Tokarev
2006-05-18T09:15:45Z

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? ;)

/mjt