[PATCH 0/4] Tools: hv

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 3:39 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org; olaf at aepfle.de;
> apw at canonical.com; ben at decadent.org.uk; thozza at redhat.com;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Tools: hv
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:24:37PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 10:01:59AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > This patchset was authored by Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>. Ben
> > > > asked me to submit this patchset. This patchset cleans up the KVP daemon
> > > > code and fixes some bugs.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > K. Y. Srinivasan (4):
> > > >   tools: hv: Fix file handle leak
> > > >   tools: hv: Fix exit() error code
> > > >   tools: hv: Check for read/write errors
> > > >   tools: hv: Parse /etc/os-release
> > >
> > > If Ben wrote these, why are you showing that you wrote them?
> >
> > Ben asked me to apply these patches on the tip (of my tree) and send the
> > patches out and that is what I did. I recreated these patches after applying to
> > my tree and that is what I have sent out. How could I have made the authorship
> > more clear (other than noting so in the comment which I have done).
> 
> You could have actually _kept_ the proper authorship information so that
> git shows who wrote the patch.  As your shortlog shows above, it looks
> like you wrote the patches, not Ben, which is not acceptable.

Obviously, I did not know how I could have done this. I will figure out the correct
way of doing this and resubmit these patches.

Thanks,

K. Y