linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiXt28aJAoW_8gD=g1jvNaAE8NZ9M9eb7EknCJkzWc4qw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:48:25 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfs: move the clone/dedupe/remap helpers to a single file

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:31 PM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> So, I have a few questions, particularly for Al, Andrew, and Linus:
>
> (1) Do you find this reorganizing acceptable?

I don't see a problem.

> (3) Can I just grab the copyrights from mm/filemap.c?  Or fs/read_write.c?
> Or something entirely different?

Heh. Those copyright notices look pretty old, and I'm not sure how
much - if anything - I had to do with the remap helpers.

I suspect just a

   // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

is fine, with no need to try to drag along any other copyright notice
history from those two files.

               Linus