Hi Greg,
the last patchset sent by Andrew contained a few errors regarding the authorship due to incorrect handling on our side. We did not notice these issues until the patches went out to get included by you.
Here is the complete list of incorrect assignments: * should be Linus instead of Simon => [PATCH 07/26] staging:batman-adv: Remove dead max addr and obsolete VIS_FORMAT strings => [PATCH 09/26] staging:batman-adv: Update README about vis raw output
* should be Luis instead of Marek => [PATCH 12/26] staging:batman-adv: fix whitespace style issues
* should be Sven instead of Marek => [PATCH 24/26] staging:batman-adv: Fix whitespace problems criticized by checkpatch.pl => [PATCH 25/26] staging:batman-adv: Reduce max characters on a line to 80
Is there any way to correct the authors of the patches in question ? I know that modifying the git history to fix the author will change all following hashes and everyone has to rebase its tree. Personally, I'm not so worried about Linus & Sven, since they are longterm contributors and somewhat close to the project. I'm sure a beer or two can compensate them for the loss of fame. Luis on the other hand seemed to be quite thrilled about getting his patch in and I'd rather not leave him with the impression we don't want to credit him for his work.
Regards, Marek