linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core

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Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 16:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, clameter@....com,
	steiner@....com, holt@....com, npiggin@...e.de,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	kanojsarcar@...oo.com, rdreier@...co.com,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	avi@...ranet.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, hugh@...itas.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, aliguori@...ibm.com, chrisw@...hat.com,
	marcelo@...ck.org, dada1@...mosbay.com, paulmck@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the original
> author of that code, I hope the From: of the email was enough even if
> an additional From: andrea was missing in the body.

Ok, this whole series of patches have just been such a disaster that I'm 
(a) disgusted that _anybody_ sent an Acked-by: for any of it, and (b) that 
I'm still looking at it at all, but I am.

And quite frankly, the more I look, and the more answers from you I get, 
the less I like it. And I didn't like it that much to start with, as you 
may have noticed.

You say that "At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the 
original author of that code", but that is not at all obvious either. One 
of the reasons I stated that authorship seems to have been thrown away is 
very much exactly in that first mmu-notifier-core patch:

	+ *  linux/mm/mmu_notifier.c
	+ *
	+ *  Copyright (C) 2008  Qumranet, Inc.
	+ *  Copyright (C) 2008  SGI
	+ *             Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

so I would very strongly dispute that it's "obvious" that you are the 
original author of the code there.

So there was a reason why I said that I thought authorship had been lost 
somewhere along the way.

		Linus
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