From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: lockdep support for sysctl reference counting. Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20090330161858.18951f62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1236934491.5188.209.camel@laptop> <49BA33BE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <1236937423.22914.3698.camel@twins> <20090313103828.GB31094@elte.hu> <20090320085205.GB16021@elte.hu> <20090320182404.GA31629@elte.hu> <1237575134.4667.5.camel@laptop> <1237577688.4667.68.camel@laptop> <20090330152616.7cc2c87c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mingo@elte.hu, jbeulich@novell.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ego@in.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60923 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752567AbZC3X0W (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:26:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:53:04 -0700 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > So I merged these two patches. I designated them as to-be-merged via > > Alexey, with a Cc:Peter (IOW: wakey wakey ;)) > > It is more sysctl than proc but whichever. As long as people aren't > blind sided at the last minute I'm fine. Yep. But keeping all fs/proc/ changes in Alexey's tree keeps things neat and is part of my secret maintainer-impressment plot. > > Regarding this: > > > >> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) > >> ... > >> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman > > > > It doesn't make a lot of sense to have a different Author: address, > > IMO. So I rewrote the From: address to be ebiederm@aristanetworks.com, > > OK? > > >From my perspective it does. It is much easier to use my personal > email setup for doing kernel work. But I need to indicate I am > signing off as an employee of AristaNetworks. Saying aristanetworks > in my signed-off-by seems a little more official. OK, fine, but to avoid confusion and to overtly announce this preference, please do add the From: Line? Plus that saves me from having to edit "ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)" to "Eric W. Biederman " a zillion times ;)