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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: > Tony wrote: > > > + listed in the last "Signed-off-by:" line in the message when Linus > > ^^^^ > > Shouldn't this be the first? > > When I sent a patch with no "from" line, and two "Signed-off-by" > lines (the patch that prompted this excursion into documentation > excellence) Linus stated that the patch author ended up coming from > the second "Signed-off-by" line. > > Perhaps it "should" be the first (actually - I tend to agree), > but it seems that it "is" the last. No. If there is no "From:" at the top of the body, the authorship is taken from the "From:" from the _email_. Which _usually_ matches the last Signed-off-line:, of course. But can be anything. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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