Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partitionrescan)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 20:38:12 EST


Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> > >(But Andrew never saw your email, I suspect: "akpm@xxxxxxx" is
>> > probably
>> > >some strange mixup of Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen in your mind ;)
>> >
>> > What do the letters kp stand for?
>
> Heh ... I've always wanted to know that myself. It's funny, no one
> seems to have asked that on lkml during all these years (at least none
> that a Google search would throw up).
>
>> "Keep Patching" ?
>
> Unlikely. "akpm" seems to be a pre-Linux-kernel nick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29

-hpa

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