linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan)

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 17:36:01 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
CC:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Greaves <david@...eaves.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition
 rescan)

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 16:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> > >(But Andrew never saw your email, I suspect: "akpm@...e.de" is
>> > probably
>> > >some strange mixup of Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen in your mind ;)
>> >
>> > What do the letters kp stand for?
> 
> Heh ... I've always wanted to know that myself. It's funny, no one
> seems to have asked that on lkml during all these years (at least none
> that a Google search would throw up).
> 
>> "Keep Patching" ?
> 
> Unlikely. "akpm" seems to be a pre-Linux-kernel nick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29

	-hpa

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