On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:29:36AM +0100, Anisse Astier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > It's the commit-message from the autogenerated patch, not the one I've
> > > sent you. Anisse Astier has done the not totally trivial backport (due to
> > > the complete rewrite of the gtt code in .37) and all the testing for it
> > > which is why I've put him as the author when making the commit message
> > > stable compliant. With your seemingly autogenerated message back, that
> > > acknowledgement is gone (also, Chris Wilson hasn't put his s-o-b line on
> > > this patch).
> >
> > Ah, I kept the original author as I didn't realize this, and didn't want
> > to not credit you properly.
> >
> > As the patch is the correct thing here, I'll leave it as-is if you don't
> > mind.
> 
> I really don't mind as long as my sign-off or tested-by are here (and they 
> are).
> 
> About the authorship, as I told Daniel, he should keep it his: he
> wrote the patch, I made it to compile and tested it.
> I still have very little understanding of the code, and my initial
> attempt to port the patch was a failure since the 2.6.37 codebase is
> very different from 2.6.35/36.
> 
> So I'm ok with how it is.

Thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h

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