From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27A863FAE0C; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782725875; cv=none; b=RusnoHniZQ2mzL6fs7CKvavJLdA1aFQUzJ/ysvfJNid/QHRr1ZUSm616B1whQN+fLqiYg5ot7ChmlPfC64Rq3CY0wDQxBtI7vx/kpn/I7YOuw0MhybT5XquQZSiNrkw8zPQ7GdAhAI2k/keAe4Vex3qjtCTb7az++ILW9rVNkBg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782725875; c=relaxed/simple; bh=J8WsQBKvHb7mQ+WLW9nY84R20on5j0e62osMSg5XY+Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=kuHxvWgrfiNa9CNP0GHTuZwPD47whc2cXaQDPYcIgNcnaNMsSzHCDkauaKVDzBGPGfPt1oJQxGxw3K70ZiuJfTib3luIlYdEe1JvtZtSQoezTAa+o+BKatY+BhPIdXBtFpKjUnWBNyt2+sw69WRGxyOZwVZwlbsBxJu99vVPY/8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=bkDD6PeJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="bkDD6PeJ" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3B5001F000E9; Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:37:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1782725870; bh=2ykDqQthUIfZEJ7dIbtthe8frR9Jp1b202KOCImO0vA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=bkDD6PeJBe0Eiz6yk4EBHTxFLSR5KVzPauMT7cIQo/w8NK//QVEAr3DqMsXywZGNk TwFeTDqwgMEYIbg5ULaaOX2gu+k7PAR8HEb+vTadn8bKdJGTWhDH8cEjvCiHyNwH5Q KI8Mx/1EWTD1XzWut1Gww3uSF52+pWqdKaihQj4ePwFCm90bEXHBDAXe2lhz+YwNZY ccCCHn4ZESIwb9hph1uKI1qlrtdQ2L9WTQIN7GZHeu7rAJxQw5fIDS7URx/Df3c8pS YF42SlHCHqOukeANTh8vaKslqZdxtTuX7CqZb6s9QNw4nE+cehWl99n2yV9ZKIqYlU U65ltqXwJXG0A== Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:37:41 +0100 From: Lorenzo Stoakes To: Pratyush Yadav Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , SJ Park , Andrew Morton , "Liam R. Howlett" , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Vlastimil Babka , damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: s/SeongJae/SJ/ Message-ID: References: <20260627195630.24519-1-sj@kernel.org> <2vxzo6gtk89r.fsf@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: damon@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2vxzo6gtk89r.fsf@kernel.org> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 11:25:52AM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > 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 > > > > [...] > > > >> #include > >> 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 > > > > 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? It strikes me as a rather loose convention. I am not a lawyer, but I would say that individual and corporate ownership of code are implied by S-o-b, not by comments in files. Certainly there's not been consistency on this! > > [...] > > -- > Regards, > Pratyush Yadav Thanks, Lorenzo