Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:47:25 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] m68k: compile fix - ADBREQ_RAW missing declaration
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:16:45PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> So who should I put as the author?  You or Geert (or whatever attributions
> might have been in said big patch)?  Incidentally,  ADBREQ_RAW had leaked
> into mainline (sans definition) in 2.3.45-pre2, which was Feb 13 2000, i.e.
> more than 1.5 year before your commit, so there's quite a chunk of history
> missing...
> 
> I'm serious, BTW - I certainly would have no problem preserving attribution,
> but it simply hadn't been there.  CVS logs are only as good as the data
> being put there by committers...

With some archaeology...  It looks like drivers/macintosh part is from
Geert (with chunks from benh? not sure) circa Dec 2000; adb.h is a missing
piece of earlier patch (one that had leaked in Feb 2000, $DEITY knowns how
much older it is)...
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