Re: [PATCH v17 02/47] dept: implement DEPT(DEPendency Tracker)

Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-10-02T13:01:41Z

Hi Greg,

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 10:25, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > @@ -0,0 +1,446 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +/*
> > + * DEPT(DEPendency Tracker) - runtime dependency tracker
> > + *
> > + * Started by Byungchul Park <max.byungchul.park@gmail.com>:
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (c) 2020 LG Electronics, Inc., Byungchul Park
> > + * Copyright (c) 2024 SK hynix, Inc., Byungchul Park
>
> Nit, it's now 2025 :)

The last non-trivial change to this file was between the last version
posted in 2024 (v14) and the first version posted in 2025 (v15),
so 2024 doesn't sound that off to me.
You are not supposed to bump the copyright year when republishing
without any actual changes. It is meant to be the work’s first year
of publication.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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