Re: uclinux patches submission and author credit

Greg Ungerer
2007-08-07T06:21:08Z

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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