On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:49 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On 07/01/2008, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Manish Ahuja wrote: > > > > > Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it later. > > > If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved memory would > > > contain > > > a copy of the crashed kernel data. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I think the signed-off-by chain needs to be modified. The way it appears, > > you handled the patch first, then sent it to Linas, who forwarded it > > to whoever will take the patches from the list.
> > This obviously isn't true, since you are actually the one who is sending > > out the patches. Moreover, I believe that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > address is now dead, and shouldn't be used for this any more. > > Hmm. I wanted to indicate that the work was done while I was at IBM; > clearly, no one is going through git and changing old, expired email > addrs, and so submission based on the old addr seemed appropriate. > > I'm taking the Signed-off-by line as a quasi-legal thing: a fancy ID string, > identifying the author(s), rather than a new way to manage email > address books. No one's changing the git history (you can't), but it seems silly to submit a patch with an address that is already dead. There is a general expectation that if/when someone finds a bug in the code they can email the signed-off-by addresses and get a real person. As far as indicating it was written at IBM, that should be covered by the copyright notices. cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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