linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 00/70] Introducing the Maple Tree

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:55:32 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        "maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org" <maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/70] Introducing the Maple Tree

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:50:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Several patches were marked
> 
> From: Liam
> Signed-off-by: Matthew
> Signed-off-by: Liam
> 
> Which makes me wonder whether the attribution was correct.  Please
> double-check.

I'll take responsibility for at least some of those confusions.
As you might imagine, we've collaborated closely for several of these
patches, and I may not always have got --author right when re-writing
a patch.  I don't think it fundumentally matters; nobody's promotion
is riding on who gets credited for which patch ;-)