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

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Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:19:01 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why are some of my patches being credited to other "authors"?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 02:09:20PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
>...
> trivial@...nel.org exists to handle the rest of the bits, where Adrian
> has a tendency to queue up many trivial and related patches at once, and
> sending out pull requests at a time where it will be less disruptive to
> the rest of development. You might be better off simply CC'ing trivial@
> on these patch submissions and routinely checking the trivial git tree to
> see whether they've been queued or not.
>...

Checking the tree won't help since it's only different from Linus' tree 
in the few hours between me asking Linus to pull and Linus actually 
pulling.

Patches to trivial@...nel.org simply go into a mail folder, and I'm 
going through this during the two week merge window.

cu
Adrian

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