From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: iproute2: resend of patches from Debian. Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:54:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20071011165415.7cf8cc30@freepuppy.rosehill> References: <1192127132.4732.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <470E87EA.4030200@trash.net> <1192137732.4733.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20071011.144843.125887830.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andreas@fatal.se, kaber@trash.net, formorer@debian.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33110 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752721AbXJKXzQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:55:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071011.144843.125887830.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:48:43 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Andreas Henriksson > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:22:12 +0200 > > > Copying Alexander Wirt here again, as I think this is his patch. > > It is important that whoever is the package maintainer for an > upstream piece of code in any distribution: > > 1) Completely understands the patches he is applying. > > and therefore: > > 2) When he submits upstream, he doesn't have to wake up > 2,000 patch submitters from the dead just to figure out > why a change was made. > > Neither seems to be occuring here. Also, I want the correct author name for legal and technical reasons. -- Stephen Hemminger