Hi,

Am Mittwoch 23 Juni 2010 schrieb Andrew Morton:
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> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:55:54 -0300
> Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > > (top-posting repaired.  Please don't do that).
> > > 
> > > This wasn't a very good way to send a patch.  I edited the diff,
> > > reconstructed the patch and then assembled a decent-looking changelog. 
> > > I also changed your acked-by to the required signed-off-by, because you
> > > were on the patch's delivery path.
> > > 
> > > Pretty please: next time, prepare a proper mergeable patch with the
> > > correct attributions and signoffs?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Sure, sorry. I was just not certain if I could just resent Helmut's patch to LKML without messing with his authorship.
> 
> You can.  Put his "From:" line right at the top of the changelog and
> everyone's patch-receiving tools will honour that.  If the From: at the
> top of the changelog is absent, the tools will fall back to using the
> From: line in the mail headers.

This patch still didn't make it into mainline and it fixes a regression.
Rajiv, do you plan to resubmit the patch or did you expect it to go through
Andrew's tree?

Thanks,
Helmut
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