linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: iTCO_wdt: Fix detection of SMI-off case

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VeuP5pC3oT84KP-uVd=q+u0cSg0vzoa3zaWTuS59PZ6aQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:45:34 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christian Storm <christian.storm@...mens.com>,
        Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: iTCO_wdt: Fix detection of SMI-off case

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 8:10 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com> wrote:
> On 26.07.21 16:51, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 5:05 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com> wrote:
> >> On 26.07.21 15:59, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>> On 7/26/21 6:40 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> >>> I have no idea why there is an additional From:, but both From:
> >>> tags in the e-mail source are exact matches, and both match the
> >>> name and e-mail address in Signed-off-by:. I agree with Jan,
> >>> the SoB is there.
> >>
> >> There is one unknown in this equation, and that is the anti-email system
> >> operated by a our IT and some company in Redmond.
> >
> > Hmm... The From: in the body is the result of the `git format-patch` I believe.
> > So, two (or more?) possibilities here:
> >  1) your configuration enforces it to always put From: (something new to me);
>
> Yes, it does, as I explained in my other reply. That's a safety net
> because you never have full control over what some mail servers do to
> the first From.

I see now. Thanks for your patience and elaboration, it's all good then!

> >  2) the submitter and author are not the same (see also:
> > https://github.com/git/git/commit/a90804752f6ab2b911882d47fafb6c2b78f447c3);
> >  3) ...anything else...?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko