That's because this is a merge commit of his own branch that contained the applied version of the patchset (presumably to net-next). See one of the parents: ht

That's because this is a merge commit of his own branch that contained the applied version of the patchset (presumably to net-next). See one of the parents: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e994b2f0fb9229aeff5eea9541320bd7b2ca8714 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...