From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dilinger@queued.net,
pgf@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86, olpc: add debugfs interface for EC commands
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:31:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F70E042.4020703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120326142908.c5248aec.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 03/26/2012 02:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> v4: really fix sign-off tags
>
> s/fix/break/? "Originally-from" is not a recognised tag. If this code
> is based upon an earlier version from Paul then Signed-off-by: is
> correct.
>
> What's going on here? What are you trying to communicate?
I have been using "Originally-by:" (not Originally-from:) to indicate
content originally written by someone else which has then been
dramatically redone. It seems to communicate, but probably should be
written into a spec somewhere.
It doesn't make much sense to put that after a Signed-off-by: though
(lines are supposed to be in chronological order.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-26 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-26 18:07 [PATCH v4] x86, olpc: add debugfs interface for EC commands Daniel Drake
2012-03-26 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-26 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-03-26 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-27 16:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-27 16:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-03-26 22:13 ` Paul Fox
2012-03-26 22:45 ` Daniel Drake
2012-03-26 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-26 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-26 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-26 23:57 ` Andres Salomon
2012-03-26 23:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-26 23:23 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-26 23:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-27 4:37 ` Joe Perches
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