From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] CREDITS or CREDITS-YOURSELVES
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:51:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061117075123.GB1616@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611162324080.3349@woody.osdl.org>
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:25:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > With great astonishment I've found none of
> > these "networking" names in the CREDITS file:
> > Stephen Hemminger, Thomas Graf, Alexey Kuznetsov,
> > Andrew Morton, Pedro Roque, Jamal Hadi Salim,
> > Herbert Xu etc.
>
> You should basically consider the CREDITS file to be legacy stuff from
> five+ years ago.
Should this explain Alexey case?
> For the last five years or so, you can find the real credits in the source
> control history. That didn't use to be true.
Probably CREDITS is more accessible and more often
read by users. And it seems to be updated quite
often also...
So maybe: NOT-REAL-CREDITS.
Jarek P.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-17 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 7:25 [BUG] CREDITS or CREDITS-YOURSELVES Jarek Poplawski
2006-11-17 7:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-17 7:51 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
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