linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: header

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:47:51 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Josh Hunt <johunt@...mai.com>, Liu Hua <sdu.liu@...wei.com>,
	Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: header

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt
<xypron.glpk@....de> wrote:
> The header of Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt should not refer to
> Linux 2.2 because most of the lines were changed after that
> release.
>
> The authors that placed a copyright notice produced less than
> half of the lines. So give credit to the other authors.
>
> Replace "legal blurb" by a more precise term.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>

Seems right to me. :)

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Thanks!

-Kees

> ---
>  Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> index 83ab256..999df6b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
> -Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/*   kernel version 2.2.10
> +Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/*
> +
>         (c) 1998, 1999,  Rik van Riel <riel@...linux.org>
>         (c) 2009,        Shen Feng<shen@...fujitsu.com>
>
> -For general info and legal blurb, please look in README.
> +For other authors see the commit history.
> +
> +For general info and disclaimer, please look in README.
>
>  ==============================================================
>
>  This file contains documentation for the sysctl files in
> -/proc/sys/kernel/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.2.
> +/proc/sys/kernel/.
>
>  The files in this directory can be used to tune and monitor
>  miscellaneous and general things in the operation of the Linux
> --
> 2.1.4
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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