Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:13:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: make trap information available to die handlers
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >And the patch (attachment) also contains From:, but it's missing
> >a Signed-off-by: line.
>
> I looked at many ChangeLog entries (which supposedly get created from
> the abstract), and by far not all of them have the author listed both as
> From: and Singed-Off-By:, which made me think that either of the two
> should be sufficient (and I really can't see why the author information
> needs to appear twice).

Tools can determined the From: part from your email, so it's
often safe to omit that part.

The S-o-b part is required...

-- 
~Randy
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