linux-kernel - small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc)

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:12:05 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Carsten Otte <cotte@...ibm.com>
Subject: small author mixup  (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc)

Am Sonntag, 27. April 2008 schrieb Avi Kivity:
> Carsten Otte (4):
>       s390: KVM preparation: provide hook to enable pgstes in user pagetable
>       KVM: s390: interrupt subsystem, cpu timer, waitpsw
>       KVM: s390: API documentation
>       s390: KVM guest: detect when running on kvm
> 
> Christian Borntraeger (10):
>       KVM: kvm.h: __user requires compiler.h
>       s390: KVM preparation: host memory management changes for s390 kvm
>       s390: KVM preparation: address of the 64bit extint parm in lowcore
>       KVM: s390: sie intercept handling
>       KVM: s390: intercepts for privileged instructions
>       KVM: s390: interprocessor communication via sigp
>       KVM: s390: intercepts for diagnose instructions
>       KVM: s390: add kvm to kconfig on s390
>       KVM: s390: update maintainers
>       s390: KVM guest: virtio device support, and kvm hypercalls

Thats interesting, some of these patches should actually be credited to 
Carsten - and in fact on kvm.git master they are credited to Carsten.

I think the problem is, that these patches contained multiple From lines. On 
kvm.git the first line (Carsten) was used. When you transferred these patches 
to the kvm.git-2.6.26-branch, git used the next From-line as the original one 
was already removed.

While it is not a typical case, is there a better way of specifying multiple 
authors to avoid future confusion?

Christian
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