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Message-Id: <613F42EB-F993-4F39-AD9B-A86E06A875AA@lca.pw>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:31:04 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the random tree



> On Jan 14, 2020, at 11:57 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:22:21AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> 
>> Oh, I didn't realize I was the author. Sorry!
>> 
>> Sure, confirmed
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
>> 
> 
> Hmm... the e-mail in question[1] was sent by Qian Cai, but there was a
> 
>   From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
> 
> in the first line of the body which attributed the patch to you.  But
> then e-mail continues:
> 
>   Sergey didn't like the locking order .... but those code is so old,
>   and I have no clue how to de-couple it after checking other locks in
>   the splat. There is an onging effort to make all printk() as deferred,
>   so until that happens, workaround it for now as a short-term fix.
> 
> So did Qian Cai author the patch, and this should have been
> "Reported-by Sergey Senozhatsky"?  In which case I need a
> Signed-off-by from Qian Cai.
> 
> This is a pretty trivial patch, but it would be good to get the
> attributions and credit correct!
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1573679785-21068-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw/

It is actually Sergey proposed an informal patch here [1]. I just sent on
his behave and adding a commit log.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190911011008.GA4420@jagdpanzerIV/