linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] docs/mm: add document for swap table

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Message-ID: <aL7xoiTacg0vCLjz@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 23:09:22 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
	Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	Ying Huang <ying.huang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] docs/mm: add document for swap table

On 09/08/25 at 08:01am, Chris Li wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 09/06/25 at 03:13am, Kairui Song wrote:
> > > From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> > >
> > > From: Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
> >
> > 'From author <authorkernel.org>' can only be one person, and the co-author
> > should be specified by "Co-developed-by:" and "Signed-off-by:"?
> 
> That is the artifact of sending another person's patch in a series.
> The first "From" is from the email header sender. The second "from" is
> the real author of the patch. Just like an IP tunnel packet there is
> another inner IP packet wrapped in the outer IP packet.
> 
> I think that is all normal and did not violate the kernel rules. When
> I include Kairui's patch in my swap allocator series. The same thing
> happened there on Kairui's patch. In the end the git will know enough
> who is the real author, because those patches are  outputted by git
> anyway.

Hmm, maybe git doesn't work like that. I applied this patch via git am,
I got this on my local branch. The 2nd 'From' become part of commit log.

commit 337b3cd6c0ffad355df8851414e8aa5be052f4cb (HEAD -> kasan-v3)
Author: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 6 03:13:43 2025 +0800

    docs/mm: add document for swap table
    
    From: Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
    
    Swap table is the new swap cache.
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>