From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757320Ab2CZVcO (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:32:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56967 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755541Ab2CZVcN (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:32:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4F70E042.4020703@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:31:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Daniel Drake , 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 References: <20120326180710.8DF9C9D401E@zog.reactivated.net> <20120326142908.c5248aec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120326142908.c5248aec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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