linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86: Cleanup and add a new exception class

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:23:21 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"elliott@....com" <elliott@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86: Cleanup and add a new exception class

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:00:04PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> > So you're touching those again in patch 2. Why not add those defines to
>> > patch 1 directly and diminish the churn?
>>
>> To preserve authorship. Andy did patch 1 (the clever part). Patch 2 is just syntactic
>> sugar on top of it.
>
> That you can do in the way Ingo suggested.

I also personally don't care that much.  You're welcome to modify my patch.

If you modify it so much that it's mostly your patch, then change the
From: string and credit me.  If not, leave the author as me and make a
note in the log message.

--Andy
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