From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FB8C49EA3 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF0461954 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232714AbhF1Kpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:45:38 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42206 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232486AbhF1Kpf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:45:35 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x42a.google.com (mail-wr1-x42a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::42a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E594C061574 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x42a.google.com with SMTP id b3so20638678wrm.6 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:43:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to; bh=pNb+vUKWy59SB8eJVDEKMOkXhObwhOeVoLQvmeacdY8=; b=eOGFkO3VQOSSW3VGHkzSGDCOLueIbkAUb8wZGIaiTv3wvhR35wBdHw8WXvKF9o3JgD owDfZRS/DSf4IP+hkBXny+EPYead+ViKZ498lAGQ2begDBqIaMjTaPjtubbPHazUw56+ 1Gg3y4jcgls4xE1TQMpelkJxcXsdT0PMzpBiz6g7fG9PQZZ2KS1joYQt+vneNvIlLcWG mwvz9LFIye02MbySQfKzyJmD2ycS3XDrYG/XOSv6bgZYWn6KCgzFtjYCWrXv3+0RhmD2 LmBru9cnBCWfln5/BTO/vuY1fkXyGgplDOgc52+5kV1naVcPm8LcnqBBKfbbBgiU7y1b 2/Gg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to; bh=pNb+vUKWy59SB8eJVDEKMOkXhObwhOeVoLQvmeacdY8=; b=C9+QYKzbHwWVo9Nt5EZzq5PdU4j3DA6T8IlM96/mzH+aYAS1RgRXfBL8uK9Gro1Sej ZqZtlCCe6x8RHct00XzQo+lwF8A6nXxf238kbxB/57+npje/rz6NTRFzyfF+uSuMbq24 HnHt11IoS+EvgsVcaVWOBtW7s17l4fUJzJeee/cWg91GLxzG1eentb27qIbGuaHrOtWd 2iQ5NPGq2VUfR4KLxQ7ti+Z9kPR4jURrNty+niqQuisuztEVQNshL8ki6VvVB3Ydvw4o +FR6P1QcKn5CH5YLeVOQPQK3xoONJ0yQXJQe/r+p0Kf97diB52avQ0IthXePI4Mm0MLA YoSg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM53142U8TQhjgpBmmErmhbXXxrOQsomvUe6yHQB6o2HOCnou/mXEM 1jlA09Nhyv4X56pTI8L15JsY8g== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwBy4eD+dYimaiLRaibtlNAee135TlRNIAdEm0JndB8DbWYM106r0wQSw+7I2RhM2YrqLz/lg== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4e52:: with SMTP id r18mr26571129wrt.372.1624876989198; Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell ([95.144.13.187]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t128sm20419831wma.41.2021.06.28.03.43.08 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 28 Jun 2021 03:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 11:43:06 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Johan Hovold , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linuxarm@huawei.com, mauro.chehab@huawei.com, Rob Herring , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v6 6/8] mfd: hi6421-spmi-pmic: move driver from staging Message-ID: References: <1ad2cbbd182d18ba2cae716fb5f1497b1cabbdbe.1624525118.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <20210624143605.153e1e34@coco.lan> <20210625133858.3bf1835f@coco.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20210625133858.3bf1835f@coco.lan> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:26:00 +0200 > Johan Hovold escreveu: > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 03:08:00PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > > > > Em Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:33:28 +0100 > > > > Lee Jones escreveu: > > > > > > > > --- /dev/null > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/hi6421-spmi-pmic.c > > > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ > > > > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > > > > > +/* > > > > > > + * Device driver for regulators in HISI PMIC IC > > > > > > + * > > > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2013 Linaro Ltd. > > > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2011 Hisilicon. > > > > > > + * Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd > > > > > > > > > > Can this be updated? > > > > > > > > Do you mean updating the copyrights to cover this year? E.g. > > > > something like this: > > > > > > > > * Copyright (c) 2013-2021 Linaro Ltd. > > > > * Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Hisilicon. > > > > * Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd > > > > > > > > Right? Or are you meaning something else? > > > > > > Yes, that's it. I know this is just a move, but to MFD, it's new. > > > > That's not how copyright works. Unless Linaro and Hisilicon made > > nontrivial changes every year from 2011/2013 to 2021 you should not > > change those lines like this. > > Only Linaro can answer what happened up to 2018, as this driver > originally came from a Linaro tree, which has exactly one commit > for this driver: > > https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/commit/08464419fba2417aa849fce976fac9c5f51b3ada#diff-604ef8563dcd9ace6e3e58aac38337c72924b0889f6972d7ee9e15e2335ba964 > > After merged upstream at staging, all changes are covered by the > Huawei's copyright (2020-2021). > > So, I'll just drop this patch. If the information is not accurate, > someone from the original copyright holders can send followup > patches. After taking the time to read up on Copyright rules and expectations, I think we can pretty much safely say that all of the Copyright entries above are incorrect. Copyright dates should only be listed if significant works were undertaken in each of the years listed. So unless large adaptions happened every year since 2011, which I doubt very much, they're wrong. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog