[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the original
> author of that code, I hope the From: of the email was enough even if
> an additional From: andrea was missing in the body.

Ok, this whole series of patches have just been such a disaster that I'm 
(a) disgusted that _anybody_ sent an Acked-by: for any of it, and (b) that 
I'm still looking at it at all, but I am.

And quite frankly, the more I look, and the more answers from you I get, 
the less I like it. And I didn't like it that much to start with, as you 
may have noticed.

You say that "At least for mmu-notifier-core given I obviously am the 
original author of that code", but that is not at all obvious either. One 
of the reasons I stated that authorship seems to have been thrown away is 
very much exactly in that first mmu-notifier-core patch:

	+ *  linux/mm/mmu_notifier.c
	+ *
	+ *  Copyright (C) 2008  Qumranet, Inc.
	+ *  Copyright (C) 2008  SGI
	+ *             Christoph Lameter <clameter at sgi.com>

so I would very strongly dispute that it's "obvious" that you are the 
original author of the code there.

So there was a reason why I said that I thought authorship had been lost 
somewhere along the way.

		Linus