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cas@social.treehouse.systems

casey @ Linaro Connect

Edited 14 days ago

question for folks, i have my dead name in a bunch of files as author/copyright comments, is it ok to just send one big patch to update all these files in the kernel?

i would send a second patch to update the mailmap as well

edit: ok patch sent and almost immediately picked :3

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250517223237.15647-2-casey.connolly@linaro.org/

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cas@social.treehouse.systems

casey @ Linaro Connect

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@pavel awesome, he picked it within like 10 minutes xD

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Pavel Machek

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@cas Good. It is supposed to be easy push simple patches.
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@sphakos @fnrd turned out to be super easy just ran a few sed commands, updated mailmap and it got picked immediately, would recommend if you ever feel the urge

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