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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:28:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100430092835.GI11032@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1004301103280.9849@pobox.suse.cz>


* Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Well, Paul himself stated that according to their lawyer department, 
> > > "Copyright" (which is there) is enough. So it made sense to remove invalid 
> > > (at least in some sense) character.
> > > 
> > > Also zillion of other files copyrighted by Paul contain "Copyright (C)".
> > > 
> > > If we really want this character there then, why not rather in UTF-8, so 
> > > that it works flawlessly?
> > 
> > It might be fine but i havent seen Paul reply to this thread - and this is my 
> > point: _you_ should have waited for an ack from Paul (who is co-maintaining 
> > that file) before applying it. The commit doesnt have it:
> 
> I got Pauls reply as "as soon as there is `Copyright', it's fine". [...]

If lkml was not Cc:-ed to that reply (which appears to be the case) then it's 
worth asking for / waiting for an explicit ack.

> [...] If I misunderstood it, sorry for that, and I'll drop the patch.
> 
> Paul, could you please send explicit Acked-by: or Naked-by:, so that 
> everything is in line?

And in that case my NAK is moot.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-30 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  9:30 [PATCH] trivial: use (C) instead of \251 Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 18:42 ` Harald Arnesen
2010-04-28 20:20   ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-29 10:34     ` Harald Arnesen
2010-04-28 21:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-04-29  5:32   ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-28 22:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-29  4:57   ` Paul Mackerras
2010-04-29  5:35     ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30  7:55   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-04-30  7:59     ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-30 22:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-30  8:01     ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-30  8:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-04-30  9:04         ` Jiri Kosina
2010-04-30  9:28           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-05-01  0:34           ` Paul Mackerras

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