Re: [PATCH] uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings

Andrew Morton
2008-06-24T07:20:26Z

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:12:42 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The Userspace I/O HOWTO document uses straight <sect1> tags and plain text
> to describe copyright/legal information. It should instead use the
> <copyright> and <legalnotice> tags like all other documents in the kernel.
>

There are conflicting changes in this file in linux-next.

In late -rc the difference between mainline and linux-next is huge. It
is better to raise (and test!) patches against linux-next. That's what
it is for.

> + <holder>Hans-J__rgen Koch.</holder>
> - Copyright (c) 2006 by Hans-J__rgen Koch.

Oh dear, that got mangled at your end, or in transmission. It seems to
be mangled in mainline too. This happens a lot.