Re: [PATCH] cpuset read past eof memory leak fix

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:

> Linus wrote:
> > please for the future keep authorship intact by having
> > a "From: ...
>
> You guessed right.  Your non-technical note was applicable.
>
> Andrew - why doesn't your "The perfect patch" mention this?
>     http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
>
> Linus - would you like a patch to Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>     that mentions this?
>
> Hmmm ... I don't even see the "Acked-by" in these patch guides either.
> Probably I should include that in SubmittingPatches as well.
>
> Too bad that first line doesn't start "Author:" instead of "From:".
> Oh well - I see Andrew already suggested that, and you declined.
> (You should'a listened to him ;).

Paul, did you see Linus's email on the canonical patch format?
(I can understand if you missed it. :)

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.0/1865.html

-- 
~Randy
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