Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] KVM: x86: Clarify the kvm_run.emulation_failure structure layout

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 04:20:42PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, David Edmondson wrote:
> 
> For all these patches, assuming you want the Author credit to go to your @oracle.com
> email, they need an explicit
> 
>   From: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> otherwise git will default to the "From" email header and make the Author
> "David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx>".  And then checkpatch will rightly complain that
> the SOB does not match the Author.
> 
> Adding From: can be handled automatically by "git format-patch" via "--from", e.g.
> 
>   git format-patch --from="David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx>" ...

Or you can put

[user]
        name = David Edmondson
        email = david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx

in .git/config and then it'll use that as the author and you can send
from any random mail service using git send-email it'll slap the From:
correctly.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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