From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763516AbYEGXmK (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 19:42:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757274AbYEGXlE (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 19:41:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59488 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761111AbYEGXlA (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 19:41:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:38:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Andrew Morton , clameter@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com, holt@sgi.com, npiggin@suse.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kanojsarcar@yahoo.com, rdreier@cisco.com, swise@opengridcomputing.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, hugh@veritas.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, aliguori@us.ibm.com, chrisw@redhat.com, marcelo@kvack.org, dada1@cosmosbay.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core In-Reply-To: <20080507223738.GF8276@duo.random> Message-ID: References: <20080507130528.adfd154c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080507215840.GB8276@duo.random> <20080507222758.GD8276@duo.random> <20080507223738.GF8276@duo.random> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the original > author of that code, I hope the From: of the email was enough even if > an additional From: andrea was missing in the body. Ok, this whole series of patches have just been such a disaster that I'm (a) disgusted that _anybody_ sent an Acked-by: for any of it, and (b) that I'm still looking at it at all, but I am. And quite frankly, the more I look, and the more answers from you I get, the less I like it. And I didn't like it that much to start with, as you may have noticed. You say that "At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the original author of that code", but that is not at all obvious either. One of the reasons I stated that authorship seems to have been thrown away is very much exactly in that first mmu-notifier-core patch: + * linux/mm/mmu_notifier.c + * + * Copyright (C) 2008 Qumranet, Inc. + * Copyright (C) 2008 SGI + * Christoph Lameter so I would very strongly dispute that it's "obvious" that you are the original author of the code there. So there was a reason why I said that I thought authorship had been lost somewhere along the way. Linus