Re: [PATCH v4] ALSA: ice1712: consider error value

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:15:02 +0530,
Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:12:21 +0530,
> > Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > 
> > > earlier we were ignoring the return value of snd_ak4114_create and
> > > always returning 0.
> > > now we are returning the actual status. revo_init is calling this
> > > function, and revo_init is checking the return value.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > change in v3: spec->ak4114 is now dereferenced if we dont get an
> > > error value from snd_ak4114_create.
> > > 
> > > change in v4: error value returned according to coding style.
> > 
> > Applied but I had to fix your From address (two others, too).  That
> > doesn't match with your sign-off.  Please fix your git config to have
> > a proper author address as same as sign-off.
> 
> i know it does not match. Previously Dan Carpenter also told me the same thing, and I sent a patch from my corporate account. You can find reference of that conversation here https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/473 
> 
> copying some part from there :
> "I have given strict DMARC check for the corporate mail server. DMARC = domain based message authentication.
> So the mail i sent reached all the list subscriber from a different server than our designated server,
> and as a result it has been marked as spam in many places. I have already received a few complaints regarding that."
> 
> since i do use office resources for patches (though it is not part of my job), so i should atleast put Signed-off to the patches i send. You will see all my patches having different Signed-off and different from adderess.
> 
> again copying from the previous conversation:
> "Is there any other way that i send the patch from my personal account, and use my corporate mail in Signed-off-by ... "

You just need to put another "From: xxx" in the patch itself.  Then
git will take it as the author address.


Takashi