From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932288Ab2IDPHv (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:07:51 -0400 Received: from utopia.booyaka.com ([74.50.51.50]:49249 "EHLO utopia.booyaka.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932111Ab2IDPHt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:07:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:07:49 EDT Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:01:07 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Walmsley To: Jiri Kosina cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] HID: remove Paul Walmsley's copyright from places where it shouldn't be In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="843723315-726100372-1346770867=:11437" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --843723315-726100372-1346770867=:11437 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hello Ji=F8=ED, On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jiri Kosina wrote: > Paul Walmsley has implemented dynamic quirk handling back in 2007 through= =20 > commits: >=20 > 2eb5dc30eb ("USB HID: encapsulate quirk handling into hid-quirks.c") > 8222fbe67c ("USB HID: clarify static quirk handling as squirks") > 8cef908235 ("USB HID: add support for dynamically-created quirks") > 876b9276b9 ("USB HID: add 'quirks' module parameter") >=20 > and as such, his copyright rightly belongs to=20 > drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c file. >=20 > However when generic HID code has been converted to bus and individual=20 > quirks separated out to individual drivers on the bus, the copyright has= =20 > been blindly transfered into all the tiny drivers, which actually don't= =20 > contain any of Pauls' copyrighted code. >=20 > Remove the copyright from those sub-drivers. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina > --- >=20 > Paul, >=20 > I am sending this out to you as RFC, and am not willing to apply it=20 > without your explicit Ack. Looks fine to me, thanks. Acked-by: Paul Walmsley - Paul --843723315-726100372-1346770867=:11437--