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Message-ID: <c3caf35e-9790-661f-e9db-0a050d31ca7d@darmarit.de>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:31:19 +0200
From:   Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] doc-rst: add ABI documentation to the admin-guide
 book


Am 17.06.19 um 11:11 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
> Em Sun, 16 Jun 2019 18:04:01 +0200
> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de> escreveu:
> 
>> Am 14.06.19 um 16:15 schrieb Jonathan Corbet:
>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:10:31 +0200
>>> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I agree with Jani. No matter how the decision ends, since I can't help here, I'd
>>>> rather not show up in the copyright.
>>>
>>> Is there something specific you are asking us to do here?
>>>    
>>
>>
>> I have lost the overview, but there was a patch Mauro added a
>> kernel_abi.py.  There was my name (Markus Heiser) listed with a
>> copyright notation.
>>
>> I guess Mauro picked up some old RFC or an other old patch of
>> mine from 2016 and made some C&P .. whatever .. ATM I do not have
>> time to give any support on parsing ABI and I'am not interested
>> in holding copyrights on a C&P of a old source  ;)
> 
> Well, the code was basically written by you :-)
> 
> It was written to be a script capable of running a generic
> script. On that time, my contribution to it was basically
> to hardcode it to run "get_abi.pl".

Thanks for clarifying.

> 
> This came from an old branch where the last change was back in 2017.
> It was resurrected due to a discussion at KS ML.
> 
> There, the discussion was related to what's left to be converted
> to ReST.
> 
> While I can't simply remove your copyright, would you be happy
> with something like that?

Yes, but basically I share Jani's and Jon's doubts about this solution.

-- Markus --

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> index 2d5d582207f7..ef91b1e1ff4b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py
> @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ u"""
>       Implementation of the ``kernel-abi`` reST-directive.
>   
>       :copyright:  Copyright (C) 2016  Markus Heiser
> -    :copyright:  Copyright (C) 2016  Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> +    :copyright:  Copyright (C) 2016-2019  Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> +    :maintained-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
>       :license:    GPL Version 2, June 1991 see Linux/COPYING for details.
>   
>       The ``kernel-abi`` (:py:class:`KernelCmd`) directive calls the
> 
>