On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 8:57 PM Finn Thain [off-list ref] wrote:

When the patch author is not the message sender, the message (commit log
entry) would normally begin with "From: Author [off-list ref]".

Yes,. But in this case (as, honestly, with most of the trial patches I
send out) I'm perfectly happy to not get authorship attribution.
That's particularly true for something that I can't even test, and is
to code that I don't really know all that well.

I'm a big believer in trying to make sure people get proper credit and
attribution, but I'm also the one exception to the rule.

I get too much credit already, I don't need it for the patches that I
send out that are "I think something like this should work" and then
others do the heavy lifting of actually testing them and making sure
everything is good.

                 Linus