On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:49:27 +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:59:12AM +0900, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:53:46PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > The variable cmd_id is only assigned some value and is never used. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukher...@codethink.co.uk> > > > > Your signoff doesn't correspond to your e-mail address. While I'm > > fairly sure that you are in fact the same person so it's OK this time > > please try to ensure that they match up so that it's clear that the > > signoffs are all in order. > > But it has been like this way since I started contributing. > git log --author=sudip will show you. > > From: address was always sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com > but Signed-off-by: was su...@vectorindia.org and now > Signed-off-by: has changed to sudip.mukher...@codethink.co.uk > and you already have many such patches from me. (well, with my > vectorindia.org email) > > 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. > > 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. > > Please reconsider and let me use my gmail in my From:
Using a different author address from the sign-off is unusual, but there are a few people preferring it, indeed, AFAIK. Takashi
