Re: [PATCH 2/3] m68k: compile fix - ADBREQ_RAW missing declaration

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 12:46:36 EST


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:16:45PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> So who should I put as the author? You or Geert (or whatever attributions
> might have been in said big patch)? Incidentally, ADBREQ_RAW had leaked
> into mainline (sans definition) in 2.3.45-pre2, which was Feb 13 2000, i.e.
> more than 1.5 year before your commit, so there's quite a chunk of history
> missing...
>
> I'm serious, BTW - I certainly would have no problem preserving attribution,
> but it simply hadn't been there. CVS logs are only as good as the data
> being put there by committers...

With some archaeology... It looks like drivers/macintosh part is from
Geert (with chunks from benh? not sure) circa Dec 2000; adb.h is a missing
piece of earlier patch (one that had leaked in Feb 2000, $DEITY knowns how
much older it is)...
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