On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:37:46PM +0100, Compostella, Jeremy wrote: > I see. But you made yourself the author of my patch :( No, Arve is the author of this patch, as it was sent to me before your patch was sent. See the mailing list archives for details if you are curious. > I point you out this extract from > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches: [...] > > Note that under no circumstances can you change the author's identity (the > From header), as it is the one which appears in the changelog. [...] I did no such thing, I just took your signed-off-by: on your patch, and added it to Arve's patch, as the two were identical. I wanted to give you some kind of credit for coming up with the same change, which is what I do quite often in these kinds of situations. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html