Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platform changes for v4.11

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 21 2017 - 02:59:08 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Mike Travis (2):
> > [...]
> >
> > travis@xxxxxxx (8):
> > [...]
>
> Btw, can you be a bit more careful when applying patches to make sure
> that the name and email address is actually good?

Yes, will be more careful, sorry about that!

> This seems to be due to some screw-up on Mike's part, since the
> original email seems to have this crap in the headers:
>
> From: "'Mike Travis" <travis@xxxxxxx>, '@sgi.com

Yeah, that's god-awful ugly - I should have caught it at the latest when looking
over the shortlog so there's really no excuse for missing it ...

> which should never have worked but Mike apparently screwed up some
> script, and mail transport generally has a "let any crap through"
> tendency, but I would have hoped that people who commit these things
> actually react to how bad the end result is.
>
> Mike, please fix whatever braindamage your mail sending model has.
>
> But Ingo and Thomas (I see both of you committing those broken
> patches), please also look at what downstream sends you, and catch it
> early rather than have crap authorship information.

Yeah.

Thanks,

Ingo