Re: [PATCH 2/3] m68k: compile fix - ADBREQ_RAW missing declaration

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:16:45PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > So who should I put as the author?  You or Geert (or whatever attributions
> > might have been in said big patch)?  Incidentally,  ADBREQ_RAW had leaked
> > into mainline (sans definition) in 2.3.45-pre2, which was Feb 13 2000, i.e.
> > more than 1.5 year before your commit, so there's quite a chunk of history
> > missing...
> > 
> > I'm serious, BTW - I certainly would have no problem preserving attribution,
> > but it simply hadn't been there.  CVS logs are only as good as the data
> > being put there by committers...
> 
> With some archaeology...  It looks like drivers/macintosh part is from
> Geert (with chunks from benh? not sure) circa Dec 2000; adb.h is a missing
> piece of earlier patch (one that had leaked in Feb 2000, $DEITY knowns how
> much older it is)...

Nah, I never did Mac development ;-)

IIRC, this change originally came from maclinux CVS (which predates Linux/m68k
CVS by several years) via email. If you wait a few hours, the original author
probably will start yelling ;-)

Alternatively, I can dig up my email archives from before 2000 to identify
him....

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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