Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755273Ab2FSWVt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:21:49 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36733 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753271Ab2FSWVs (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:21:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:21:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Pearson, Greg" Cc: Tejun Heo , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , "shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "mingo@elte.hu" , "yinghai@kernel.org" , "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm/memblock: fix overlapping allocation when doubling reserved array Message-Id: <20120619152147.9f377a64.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4FE0F675.3050201@hp.com> References: <1340063278-31601-1-git-send-email-greg.pearson@hp.com> <20120619213315.GL32733@google.com> <4FE0F675.3050201@hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 28 On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:00:22 +0000 "Pearson, Greg" wrote: > I wasn't quite sure what to do about that at first either, I read > "Documentation/SubmittingPatches" and it says: > > "The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the > development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path." > > Since Yinghai contributed some code that is in the current version of > the patch I thought the "Signed-off-by" tag would be ok, but if > something else is more appropriate I have no problem re-cutting the > patch to make the chain of custody more clear. Yup, we shouldn't expect people to be able to magically infer fine-grained details such as this from hints embedded in the signoff trail. Fortunately we can write stuff in English ;) I added : This patch contains contributions from Yinghai Lu. to the changelog. Simple, huh? :) -- 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/