On Friday February 8, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > + > > +These tags are: > > + > > +From: The original author of the patch. This tag will ensure > > + that credit is properly given when somebody other than the > > + original author submits the patch. > > "From:" is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* (and _only_ the > top) of the email, which indicates authorship. It goes along with markers > like "Date:" and "Subject:", and has nothing to do with the sign-off-like > tags at the end.
You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm that I did not author, and that don't have a From: tag in the body saying who did author them, then akpm tells me off. And I don't like that :-( Maybe we need "tags in git commit logs" and "tags in email sent to akpm" and ... :-) NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
