Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeoutmechanism

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2008-02-25 11:01:08, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > From: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Why is this good idea?

It preserves the original author when the patch is applied by git.
Otherwise the author of the email would be classified as the author of
the patch, which is not the correct thing to have happen a lot of times
(like this one.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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