Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765369AbYBVTGu (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:06:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758302AbYBVTGS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:06:18 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:36225 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757019AbYBVTGQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:06:16 -0500 Message-ID: <47BF1C96.1060100@goop.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:03:50 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: Implement getgeo for Xen virtual block device. References: <47BDE731.60801@goop.org> <47BDEA5E.4070800@goop.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds wrote: > This isn't a problem with things like "Signed-off-by:" etc tags, because > they have no automated meaning and don't really change the commit itself, > but the "From:"/"Date:"/"Subject:" markers at the head of the message > really do have real meaning, and get removed from the commit message and > instead get put into the SCM headers. > It may be worth having a definitive and unambiguous Author: tag then, which can appear among Signed-off-by:s and is used in preference to anything else. From: is a useful heuristic which seems to work well in general, but as you say, it gets a bit hairy when you have something which means different things to different parts of the software stack at the same time. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/