linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Use UTF-8 copyright symbol instead of \251

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1005031541390.9849@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 3 May 2010 15:42:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Use UTF-8 copyright symbol instead of \251

On Sat, 1 May 2010, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> As noted by Tejun Heo, the latin-1 copyright character \251 is invalid
> in ASCII or UTF-8.  This changes the character to its UTF-8 encoding
> in order to avoid problems with editors and other tools.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
> index 9dbe8cd..d46a277 100644
> --- a/kernel/perf_event.c
> +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>   *  Copyright (C) 2008 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>   *  Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
>   *  Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@...hat.com>
> - *  Copyright  ???  2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <paulus@....ibm.com>

Umm ... this looks odd.

> + *  Copyright  ©  2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp. <paulus@....ibm.com>

This seems to add \251 again :) Maybe some of your tools got confused 
enough?

Anyway, I have dropped the patch from Tejun for now.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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