From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:41:44 +0100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] vmalloc fixes and improvements Message-ID: <20081108054144.GB24308@wotan.suse.de> References: <20081108021512.686515000@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, glommer@redhat.com, rjw@sisk.pl List-ID: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:13:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, npiggin@suse.de wrote: > > > > The following patches are a set of fixes and improvements for the vmap > > layer. > > They seem seriously buggered. > > Patches that seem to be authorted by others (judging by sign-off) have no > such attribution. And because you apparently use some sh*t-for-emailer, > the patches that _are_ yours are missing your name, because it just says > > From: npiggin@suse.de > > without any "Nick Piggin" there. > > I'd suggest fixing your emailer scripts regardless, but a "From: " at the > top of the body would fix both the attribution to others, and give you a > name too. I thought when there is no From in the body, then it defaults to the first Signed-off-by:. At least Andrew's scripts IIRC have got that right? (unless it is Andrew fixing it manually). > PLEASE. Missing authorship attribution is seriously screwed up. Don't do > it. Don't merge them. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org