On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:56:28 +0530 Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:02:23AM +0900, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:19:27AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > Can i not keep using my gmail as my From: ? > > > The advantage of using gmail as my From: is that the discussion and all > > > threads related to my patches will be in the same place even if my work > > > email is changed. > > > > That's fine (I'm doing something similar), just use that as your signoff > > address then. > > > > > And AFAIK, the From: name and the Signed-off-by: name should match else > > > the tools used by Greg and others to generate the stats will break. > > > > I don't understand - what I'm pointing out here is that they do not > > match? > > Now I am confused. :( > My From: is Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxx> > and my Signed-off-by: is Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > My From name and Signed-off name matches. But my emails donot match. Which is fine - unless you are submitting patches to Mark 8). I also usually split my email address and GregKH doesn't seem to mind at all. The other option I suppose would be to put both addresses in the signed off by sequence, but that probably causes confusion Alan _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
