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Message-ID: <20090429081459.GA9369@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:14:59 +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
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * 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)
I've added these credits:
+/*
+ * ld script for the x86 kernel
+ *
+ * Historic 32-bit version written by Martin Mares <mj@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+ *
+ * Modernisation and unification done by Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
is that fine to you?
Ingo
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