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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Multiple patch authors
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50894F8E.9060706@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121025143626.GD308@x1.osrc.amd.com>

On 10/25/2012 07:36 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:32:36AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I have also used:
>>
>> Originally-by:
>>
>> ... for a patch originally written by one person but then
>> extensively reworked to the point of not really being the same work.
>
> Yes, whatever wording we agree upon for the tag, it should be as general
> text as possible so that it fits the majority of multiple authorship
> cases.
>

Not necessarily.  It is actually better to have more specific tags for 
different situations.

There is a reason why tip-bot accepts any tag ending in -by: ...

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-25  8:32 [PATCH v3] Add support for AMD64 EDAC on multiple PCI domains Daniel J Blueman
2012-10-25 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-25 11:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-25 13:59     ` Multiple patch authors (was: Re: [PATCH v3] Add support for AMD64 EDAC on multiple PCI domains) Borislav Petkov
2012-10-25 14:32       ` Multiple patch authors H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-25 14:36         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-25 14:41           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-10-25 15:23             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-29  6:17   ` [PATCH v3] Add support for AMD64 EDAC on multiple PCI domains Daniel J Blueman
2012-10-29  8:54     ` Daniel J Blueman
2012-10-29 10:32       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-31  5:23         ` Daniel J Blueman

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