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Date:	Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:53:58 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	rdunlap@...radead.org, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@....edu>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / Documentation: Update Srivatsa S. Bhat's email address

On 06/09/2014 04:58 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, June 09, 2014 03:54:49 PM Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> My @linux.vnet.ibm.com email address is going to disappear soon, as I will be
>> beginning my M.S./PhD studies at MIT in a few months.
> 
> Congratulations!
> 

Thanks a lot! :-)

>> So update my email address in the documentation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@....edu>
>> ---
>>
>>  Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
>> index e13dafc..3813703 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/power/suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  Interaction of Suspend code (S3) with the CPU hotplug infrastructure
>>  
>> -     (C) 2011 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> +     (C) 2011-2014 Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@....edu>
> 
> I'm actually unsure if updating copyright notices like that is OK.
> 
> Yes, you're moving, but the address in the notice documents the status at
> the time you added it.
> 

Oh, ok..

> You still can add a new copyright notice with the new address when you update
> the document in the future. :-)
>

Sure :-) For now, I'll just send a patch to update the copyright and extend
it to 2014 (for my IBM id), while that email-id is still in use.

But what about .mailmap? Can I add to that? I guess I can, since that's not
related to copyrights and it is meant to handle email-id changes and such.
 
> Updating the address where it is a "contact info" or in MAINTAINERS is a
> different matter, of course.
> 

Ah, I see. Thank you!

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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