[ovs-dev] [PATCH] dpif: Restore a few lines with form feed characters

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:01:59AM +0530, Sriharsha Basavapatna wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 3:33 AM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:16:45AM +0530, Sriharsha Basavapatna via dev wrote:
> > > A few lines with form feed characters (ASCII: ^L) were accidentally
> > > deleted by a recent commit to support rebalancing of offloaded flows.
> > > This patch reverts those lines.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 57924fc91c ("revalidator: Rebalance offloaded flows")
> > > Signed-off-by: Sriharsha Basavapatna <sriharsha.basavapatna at broadcom.com>
> >
> > Thanks for the patch.
> >
> > In the email headers, your name and email address show up as:
> >         From: Sriharsha Basavapatna via dev <ovs-dev at openvswitch.org>
> >
> > When this gets fed into Git, it ends up with "ovs-dev at openvswitch.org"
> > credited with the patch, as well as "via dev" at the end of the name.
> > That's not good.  Can you send the patch from a "From" address that is
> > appropriate for the commit?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben.
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I'd reported this problem to Aaron sometime back and the the email
> thread is below; seems like some issues with patchwork.

I didn't get the patch from patchwork but directly from the mailing
list, so it's not a problem with patchwork.

(You'll notice that when I quoted your email, the leader said "Sriharsha
Basavapatna via dev wrote".  That's because it's literally the From:
line of the email that I replied to.)