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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, jbeulich@novell.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ego@in.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl:  lockdep support for sysctl reference counting.
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090330161858.18951f62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k566k4hb.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:53:04 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > So I merged these two patches.  I designated them as to-be-merged via
> > Alexey, with a Cc:Peter (IOW: wakey wakey ;))
> 
> It is more sysctl than proc but whichever.  As long as people aren't
> blind sided at the last minute I'm fine.

Yep.  But keeping all fs/proc/ changes in Alexey's tree keeps things
neat and is part of my secret maintainer-impressment plot.

> > Regarding this:
> >
> >> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
> >> ...
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
> >
> > It doesn't make a lot of sense to have a different Author: address,
> > IMO.  So I rewrote the From: address to be ebiederm@aristanetworks.com,
> > OK?
> 
> >From my perspective it does.  It is much easier to use my personal
> email setup for doing kernel work.  But I need to indicate I am
> signing off as an employee of AristaNetworks.  Saying aristanetworks
> in my signed-off-by seems a little more official.

OK, fine, but to avoid confusion and to overtly announce this
preference, please do add the From: Line?

Plus that saves me from having to edit
"ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)" to
"Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>"

a zillion times ;)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-30 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-12 13:21 [PATCH, resend] eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s Jan Beulich
2009-03-12 13:48 ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-13  8:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  1:39 ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: " Jan Beulich
2009-03-13  8:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  9:21     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s Jan Beulich
2009-03-13  9:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13 10:38         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-19 22:14           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-20  8:52             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20  9:58               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-20 18:24                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20 18:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-20 19:34                     ` cpu hotplug and lockdep (was: Re: [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s) Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-21  7:39                       ` [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: lockdep support Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21  7:40                         ` [PATCH 1/2] sysctl: Don't take the use count of multiple heads at a time Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21  7:42                           ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: lockdep support for sysctl reference counting Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-30 22:26                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-30 22:53                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-30 23:18                                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-30 23:50                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31  8:10                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  8:47                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31  8:17                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31 13:40                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-31 15:35                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31 22:44                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-04-10  9:18                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-20 23:40                     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointlessWARN_ON()s Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-21 10:20                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-13  9:31     ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too Ingo Molnar
2009-03-13 10:36 ` [tip:core/ipi] panic: clean up kernel/panic.c Ingo Molnar

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