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McKenney" , Frederic Weisbecker , Mike Snitzer , Josh Triplett , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Jiri Pirko , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Vinod Koul , Johannes Weiner , dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:54:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o7qbvra9.fsf@meer.lwn.net> References: <20230129231053.20863-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> <875yckvt1b.fsf@meer.lwn.net> <8540c721-6bb9-3542-d9bd-940b59d3a7a4@acm.org> <87o7qbvra9.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.42.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: rINHRxV1D64-5YqYmvXoiq9bBKTirX1e X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: eZPeQqFlkdhx5p58topJeC6q8R4gRCuD X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.219,Aquarius:18.0.930,Hydra:6.0.562,FMLib:17.11.122.1 definitions=2023-02-02_12,2023-02-02_01,2022-06-22_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 mlxscore=0 malwarescore=0 priorityscore=1501 impostorscore=0 bulkscore=0 phishscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 suspectscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2212070000 definitions=main-2302020166 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 11:46 -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Bart Van Assche writes: > > > On 2/2/23 10:33, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On 2/2/23 10:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > > Randy Dunlap writes: > > > > >   [PATCH 6/9] Documentation: scsi/ChangeLog*: correct > > > > > spelling > > > > >   [PATCH 7/9] Documentation: scsi: correct spelling > > > > > > > > I've left these for the SCSI folks for now.  Do we *really* > > > > want to be > > > > fixing spelling in ChangeLog files from almost 20 years ago? > > > > > > That's why I made it a separate patch -- so the SCSI folks can > > > decide that... > > > > How about removing the Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.* files? I'm > > not sure these changelogs are still useful since these duplicate > > information that is already available in the output of git log > > ${driver_directory}. > > Actually, the information in those files mostly predates the git era, > so you won't find it that way.  I *still* question their value, > though... In the pre-source control days they were the answer to the GPLv2 Section 2 requirement to " carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." If you remove the files you may run afoul of the GPLv2 Section 1 requirement to "keep intact all the notices that refer to this License". Of course, nowadays we assume the source control does this for us, so people rarely think of these requirements, but for files that predate source control I think you need to consider the licence implications. James