Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:15:25 -0600
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, corbet@lwn.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time
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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.

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