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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:36:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4643BA71.7050803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0705100948x71279953ja4dc1903adda177@mail.gmail.com>

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> > >(But Andrew never saw your email, I suspect: "akpm@suse.de" is
>> > probably
>> > >some strange mixup of Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen in your mind ;)
>> >
>> > What do the letters kp stand for?
> 
> Heh ... I've always wanted to know that myself. It's funny, no one
> seems to have asked that on lkml during all these years (at least none
> that a Google search would throw up).
> 
>> "Keep Patching" ?
> 
> Unlikely. "akpm" seems to be a pre-Linux-kernel nick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  0:37 Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan) Neil Brown
2007-05-10  1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-10 14:51   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-10 14:59     ` Xavier Bestel
2007-05-10 16:48       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-11  0:36         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-10 19:04     ` Andrew Morton

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