Re: [PATCH 66/73] staging/lustre: remove lots of dead code

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On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:36:01AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 27 September 2015 16:46:06 green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This is a large patch to remove all dead code from obdclass and
> > ptlrpc, purely removing functions and declarations now, so
> > despite the size should be easy enough to verify.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for all the work to split out the smaller patches from my
> larger code removal!
> 
> There is one small point about the attribution though: your split
> out patches now have 'From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' along
> wtih 'Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>', which is
> inconsistent. For the larger chunks of patches that you took from me
> and that retain my 'Signed-off-by', it would be nice if you could
> set the author field to me for consistency as well.
> 
> For the smaller patches for which writing the changelog was likely
> more work than doing the patch, it's fine if you claim authorship,
> but if you do that then please change the 'Signed-off-by' to
> 'Reported-by' or 'Suggested-by' for me, so the author field
> matches the first Signed-off-by.

I agree, this isn't good.  I've applied the first 47 patches in this
series as they authorship info all seemed correct up until then.

Oleg, can you rebase and resend the remaining ones after fixing this up?

thanks,

greg k-h
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