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SubjectRe: [git patches] net driver updates for .27
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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:33 -0400

> David Miller wrote:
> > "Author" is always who wrote the patch, and I think it's important to
> > be consistent in that area.
>
> "always"? There are /plenty/ of occasions, usually at big corps, where
> the Author is not the person who wrote the patch, but rather the person
> who sent the patch.
>
> And you'll note that all Linus's tools capture that -- author is patch
> sender -- albeit with optional From parsing from patch commit description.

I guess that's a compelling enough argument. I'll pull your
original tree, thanks Jeff.


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