linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module based on LZ4 v1.7.2.

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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:52:35 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@...ormatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     bongkyu.kim@....com, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: Update LZ4 compressor module based on LZ4
 v1.7.2.

On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 19:53 +0100, Sven Schmidt wrote:
> This patch updates LZ4 kernel module to LZ4 v1.7.2 by Yann Collet.
> The kernel module is inspired by the previous work by Chanho Min.
> The updated LZ4 module will not break existing code since there were alias
> methods added to ensure backwards compatibility.

[]

> diff --git a/include/linux/lz4.h b/include/linux/lz4.h
[]
> @@ -1,87 +1,218 @@
>  #ifndef __LZ4_H__
>  #define __LZ4_H__
> +
>  /*
>   * LZ4 Kernel Interface
>   *
> - * Copyright (C) 2013, LG Electronics, Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@....com>
> + * Copyright (C) 2016, Sven Schmidt <4sschmid@...ormatik.uni-hamburg.de>

Deleting copyright notices is poor form and shouldn't be done.

I didn't look at the rest