linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch

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Date:   Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:01:49 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into
 original patch

On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 16:34 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

> If not "Adjusted-by", what about "Tweaked-by", "Helped-by",
> "Corrected-by"?

Improved-by: / Enhanced-by: / Revisions-by: 

Or simply don't use anything but a link to the conversion thread
like Konstantin suggested.

I still want to know what actual value these things have and to whom.