linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable errors

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Message-ID: <20110421100639.GC10263@aftab>
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:06:39 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Chumbalkar, Nagananda" <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@...com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	EDAC devel <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable
 errors

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:58:48AM -0400, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Ok, indeed. Also, in the future, if you take patches from others please also 
> credit them in the changelog. Something like this would have been good in the 
> current case:
> 
>   Also, this patch includes a change from Nagananda Chumbalkar as well, which 
>   drops tainting in the therma throttling code for a similar reason: crossing a
>   thermal threshold does not mean corruption.
> 
> Nagananda's Acked-by is there so there's at least partial credit - but we 
> generally try to aim for at least 100% credit where credit is due :-)

Absolutely, and in the light of recent events :) I'm still not sure how
to do that though in a straight-forward manner so that it is visible at
a first glance. Sure, adding freeform text to the commit message is one
way. Using a SOB chain might work too - even the Acked-by tag - but all
those have another main purpose and are being repurposed for annotating
the fact that a patch is the result of more than one author's thought
process.

IOW, in case I'm not missing anything, we don't really have a way to
denote a multiple authorship, correct? And we should...

Thanks.

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