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Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:20:25 +0100
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: <akpm@osdl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: make trap information available to die
	handlers
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>>> "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> 08.11.05 18:13:28 >>>
>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...

Strange. Andi Kleen specifically asked me to add From: to my patches...
And I still can't see why the author of a patch wouldn't implicitly sign
off on it.

Jan
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