Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: smsc: Move SMSC PHY constants to <linux/smscphy.h>

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon,  2 Jan 2012 18:08:50 +0100

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Come on, I normally don't get into how people do copyrights in files,
but this is a file with 13 trivial defines, and the whole kernel
source tree is explicitly GPL V2'd by the top-level COPYING file.

So this thing is over the top.