Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934083Ab2JYOlm (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:41:42 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41900 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933068Ab2JYOlk (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:41:40 -0400 Message-ID: <50894F8E.9060706@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:41:18 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121016 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Ingo Molnar , Daniel J Blueman , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Multiple patch authors References: <1351153972-14019-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com> <20121025110353.GA2623@aftab.osrc.amd.com> <20121025115654.GA27611@gmail.com> <20121025135948.GA308@x1.osrc.amd.com> <50894D84.9030203@zytor.com> <20121025143626.GD308@x1.osrc.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20121025143626.GD308@x1.osrc.amd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: 971 Lines: 30 On 10/25/2012 07:36 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:32:36AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I have also used: >> >> Originally-by: >> >> ... for a patch originally written by one person but then >> extensively reworked to the point of not really being the same work. > > Yes, whatever wording we agree upon for the tag, it should be as general > text as possible so that it fits the majority of multiple authorship > cases. > Not necessarily. It is actually better to have more specific tags for different situations. There is a reason why tip-bot accepts any tag ending in -by: ... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/