linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platform changes for v4.11

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Message-ID: <20170221075838.GA3125@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:58:38 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platform changes for v4.11


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Mike Travis (2):
> >      [...]
> >
> > travis@....com (8):
> >      [...]
> 
> Btw, can you be a bit more careful when applying patches to make sure
> that the name and email address is actually good?

Yes, will be more careful, sorry about that!

> This seems to be due to some screw-up on Mike's part, since the
> original email seems to have this crap in the headers:
> 
>     From: "'Mike Travis" <travis@....com>, '@....com

Yeah, that's god-awful ugly - I should have caught it at the latest when looking 
over the shortlog so there's really no excuse for missing it ...

> which should never have worked but Mike apparently screwed up some
> script, and mail transport generally has a "let any crap through"
> tendency, but I would have hoped that people who commit these things
> actually react to how bad the end result is.
> 
> Mike, please fix whatever braindamage your mail sending model has.
> 
> But Ingo and Thomas (I see both of you committing those broken
> patches), please also look at what downstream sends you, and catch it
> early rather than have crap authorship information.

Yeah.

Thanks,

	Ingo