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Message-ID: <2c283c83-debf-ecb5-0d06-c8f294e9e551@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:10:58 -0800
From:   Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: vmx: Remove FSF address

On 12/14/2017 04:07 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Checkpatch in the kernel now complains about having the FSF address
> in comments. Other tools such as rpmlint are now starting to do the
> same thing. Remove the FSF address to reduce warnings on multiple tools.
> 

Bah I realized I missed the uapi version of this header which is the
_actual_ one with a problem. I'll send v2, sorry for the noise.

> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
> ---
> For context, I'm doing some refactoring of the perf rpm package in
> Fedora which requires a review. The FSF address was caught in that
> review so I'm fixing the problem at the source here before requesting
> a sync of the header with perf.
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 4 ----
>   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> index 8b6780751132..6caf20c52915 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
> @@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
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