On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:27:09PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > 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. Well, Mark has also accepted many patches from me which has same name but different email addresses. > > The other option I suppose would be to put both addresses in the signed > off by sequence, but that probably causes confusion yes, maybe. I believe I should be responsible for the patches which I have sent and any regression or problem because of any of my patch should come to me. If I just use my corporate email address in both my From: and Signed-off: then I will not be reachable after I change job. regards sudip _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
