linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/13] x86, vmlinux.lds: unify header/footer

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:04:55 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@....EDU>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] x86, vmlinux.lds: unify header/footer


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> Merge everything except PHDRS and SECTIONS into
> vmlinux.lds.S
> No functional changes.
> 
> This include the removal of an ancient comment that
> Martin Mares wrote this file.

> -/* ld script to make i386 Linux 
> - * Written by Martin Mares <mj@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>;

That's a historic copyright notice in essence which we should not 
remove - we should preserve that as:

> + Original 32-bit version written by Martin Mares <mj@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

(preferably with a date-of-that-original-patch inserted as well)

	Ingo
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