Re: [git patches] net driver updates for .27

[David Miller]

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:33 -0400

> David Miller wrote:
> > "Author" is always who wrote the patch, and I think it's important to
> > be consistent in that area.
> 
> "always"?  There are /plenty/ of occasions, usually at big corps, where 
> the Author is not the person who wrote the patch, but rather the person 
> who sent the patch.
> 
> And you'll note that all Linus's tools capture that -- author is patch 
> sender -- albeit with optional From parsing from patch commit description.

I guess that's a compelling enough argument.  I'll pull your
original tree, thanks Jeff.
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