From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeff@garzik.org
Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver updates for .27
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:14:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080612.161416.82163498.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4851A695.7050706@garzik.org>
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:33 -0400
> David Miller wrote:
> > "Author" is always who wrote the patch, and I think it's important to
> > be consistent in that area.
>
> "always"? There are /plenty/ of occasions, usually at big corps, where
> the Author is not the person who wrote the patch, but rather the person
> who sent the patch.
>
> And you'll note that all Linus's tools capture that -- author is patch
> sender -- albeit with optional From parsing from patch commit description.
I guess that's a compelling enough argument. I'll pull your
original tree, thanks Jeff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 2:30 [git patches] net driver updates for .27 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-12 3:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-06-12 4:29 ` David Miller
2008-06-12 22:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-12 22:22 ` David Miller
2008-06-12 22:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-12 23:14 ` David Miller [this message]
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2008-07-11 5:27 Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 5:36 ` David Miller
2008-07-04 12:54 Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06 4:10 ` David Miller
2008-07-06 4:20 ` David Miller
2008-06-28 15:09 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-29 4:33 ` David Miller
2008-06-27 6:25 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-28 8:39 ` David Miller
2008-06-25 3:15 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-25 4:13 ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2008-06-25 7:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-25 7:24 ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2008-06-18 4:20 Jeff Garzik
2008-06-18 4:53 ` David Miller
2008-06-02 0:41 Stephen Rothwell
2008-05-22 19:10 Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <20080522121658.d1523365.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-22 19:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-29 10:33 ` David Miller
2008-05-29 12:39 ` Stephen Rothwell
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