linux-kernel - Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"?

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Message-ID: <84144f020612090548r50a8ffaflb35ebbcd3e944e6a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:48:06 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	"Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"?

On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
>   perhaps i'm just being clueless about the authorship protocol here,
> but i'm a bit hacked off by noticing that at least one submitted patch
> of mine was apparently re-submitted (albeit slightly modified) a few
> days later by another poster and applied under that poster's name.
>
>   on sun, dec 3, i submitted to the list:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116516635728664&w=2

It really seems to be Burman Yan's patch from November 22. Notice how
your patch still has the redundant cast whereas the applied one
doesn't.
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