linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ftrace: Rewrite of function graph to allow multiple users

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20240718185547.551f7dc8@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:55:47 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)"
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ftrace: Rewrite of function graph to allow multiple
 users

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:54:11 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 14:29, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > Basically, it's just to show who owns the copyright.  
> 
> .. but since basically nobody else does that, it's worthless.
> 
> You'd have to go back to the email address and date range *anyway* for
> everybody else, so you doing it adds no value - and everybody doing it
> would be just hugely annoying.
> 
> End result: unless there's some actual company policy, please just
> don't do this. Because your "copyright" excuse is clearly just empty
> words.

It was also a way to give credit to the ones that pay me. But whatever.
I've been doing this since 2013, not sure why it is now such an annoyance.
Was it just because patches that have been living in my repo since I was at
VMware finally made it forward so that both companies showed up in one pull
request? Or has this always been an annoyance?

I'll remove it, but it just feels wrong to me, as I'm no longer giving
credit to the one funding my work, and I have no plans on switching to my
google email.

Note, I have commits with it already, so this change will only happen for
new code.

-- Steve