From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:20:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B80F46.8070804@snapgear.com> (raw)
Hi Philippe,
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:36 +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Greg,
>
> Currently, all the patches that are submitted via Greg are marked as
> authored by Greg. Actually, the author is named in the first
> Signed-off-by line (often Greg himself, sometimes someone other).
>
> Would it be possible to fix the patch submission scheme so that the real
> author is credited ?
Currently if I submit a patch that was sent to me with a
Signed-off-by line I just add mine underneath it and send.
If the patch didn't come with a Signed-off-by then I put the
original author in a "From" line at the top of the submission.
Looks like I should always add a "From" line.
Regards
Greg
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2007-08-07 6:20 Greg Ungerer [this message]
2007-08-07 15:04 ` uclinux patches submission and author credit Philippe De Muyter
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2007-08-06 15:36 Philippe De Muyter
2007-08-06 16:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
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