Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/

[Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 29 2026, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

> On 6/27/26 21:56, SJ Park wrote:
>> My legal name and preferred first names are SeongJae and SJ,
>> respectively.  I was using the legal name for commits and tags, while
>> using the preferred name for conversations.  It sometimes confuses
>> people including myself.  Consistently use the preferred name.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
>
> [...]
>
>>  #include <linux/pid.h>
>> diff --git a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
>> index 1cfb8c176b873..fcf7c7fadb5fe 100644
>> --- a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
>> +++ b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
>> @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
>>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>>  /*
>>   * Data Access Monitor Unit Tests
>> - *
>> - * Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
>> - *
>> - * Author: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
>
> Just curious, why do you drop the author and copyright information? (can you
> even drop the Amazon copyright note?)

Off topic, but I am curious how these copyright notices are supposed to
work in the first place. From what I have seen, the person who creates
the file normally adds one for themselves/their employer. But then other
contributors who make small/medium changes don't add theirs, even though
they should hold the copyright for the code they added. Bigger refactors
sometimes add a notice but that isn't done consistently either.

So do these notices even hold any value? They certainly don't list all
the entities who hold the copyright to the code in the file. Only git
log can tell you that. Is there even any point in adding them?

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav