Re: [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This isn't a problem with things like "Signed-off-by:" etc tags, because 
> they have no automated meaning and don't really change the commit itself, 
> but the "From:"/"Date:"/"Subject:" markers at the head of the message 
> really do have real meaning, and get removed from the commit message and 
> instead get put into the SCM headers.
>   

It may be worth having a definitive and unambiguous Author: tag then, 
which can appear among Signed-off-by:s and is used in preference to 
anything else.  From: is a useful heuristic which seems to work well in 
general, but as you say, it gets a bit hairy when you have something 
which means different things to different parts of the software stack at 
the same time.

    J