To indicate that the author is different from the submitter, the first
line in the body of the email should be:
        From: Author Name <author.email@domain>
"git send-email" does that automatically if the author and submitter are
different.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:41:19AM +0000, O Mahony, Billy wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> This was originally authored by Mark as part of an earlier patch set - 
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-March/052123.html
> 
> I am handling the rework of same hence the dual sign-off.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to handled situations like this? 
> 
> Cheers,
> Billy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 7:29 PM
> To: O Mahony, Billy
> Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] automake.mk: Improve schema checksum error 
> message.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:09:06PM +0000, Billy O'Mahony wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Mark D. Gray <mark.d.g...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Billy O'Mahony <billy.o.mah...@intel.com>
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  It looks good but I'm confused about authorship.  Who 
> is the author--you or Mark?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.
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