On Sunday February 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil responding to Linus: > > > "From:" is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top* > > > > You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm > > Linus wasn't saying you don't need a 'From:' line in this case (as the > *top* line of patches you didn't author). He's saying it's not an > instance of the type "tag" line, such as the "Signed-off-by:" line that > go after the patch explanation. The "From:" line is a different kind > of line, with different rules and position.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..... When Linus used "From" "Subject" and "Date" together in the context of "mail", it sounded a lot like he was talking about the headers section of a standard mail item. I guess he wasn't. I don't really care if "From:" gets called a 'tag' or what, but given that it is an important piece of metadata associated with a patch, it seems good to document it in the same place as other important pieces of metadata that are associated with patches. 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/
