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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] HID: remove Paul Walmsley's copyright from places where it shouldn't be
Hello Jiří,

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> Paul Walmsley has implemented dynamic quirk handling back in 2007 through
> commits:
>
> 2eb5dc30eb ("USB HID: encapsulate quirk handling into hid-quirks.c")
> 8222fbe67c ("USB HID: clarify static quirk handling as squirks")
> 8cef908235 ("USB HID: add support for dynamically-created quirks")
> 876b9276b9 ("USB HID: add 'quirks' module parameter")
>
> and as such, his copyright rightly belongs to
> drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c file.
>
> However when generic HID code has been converted to bus and individual
> quirks separated out to individual drivers on the bus, the copyright has
> been blindly transfered into all the tiny drivers, which actually don't
> contain any of Pauls' copyrighted code.
>
> Remove the copyright from those sub-drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> ---
>
> Paul,
>
> I am sending this out to you as RFC, and am not willing to apply it
> without your explicit Ack.

Looks fine to me, thanks.

Acked-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>

- Paul
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