linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

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Message-Id: <20080217211525.09ae860f.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:15:25 -0600
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, corbet@....net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/patch-tags, one more time

Neil responding to Linus:
> > "From:" is not a tag. It's a special marker at the *top*
>
> You may be right, but when I email patches to akpm

Linus wasn't saying you don't need a 'From:' line in this case (as the
*top* line of patches you didn't author).  He's saying it's not an
instance of the type "tag" line, such as the "Signed-off-by:" line that
go after the patch explanation.  The "From:" line is a different kind
of line, with different rules and position.

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