On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:42 PM, Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is the 20180105 release of ACPICA with updated copyright years >> and a few other small changes. >> >> Anuj Mittal (1): >> ACPICA: Linux: add support for X32 ABI compilation >> >> Bob Moore (2): >> ACPICA: All acpica: Update copyrights to 2018 > > So I know that this patch is two months old and already merged, but I > only just noticed it. How is this patch legitimate? Most of the > files updated to 2018 were not actually changed this year, so you are > effectively claiming a copyright extension that doesn't exist. I've > seen other people submit patches that update copyright years, only to > be told that those patches should be part of some other patches that > actually update the content of the file (example: > https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg489232.html). That patch caused the in-kernel ACPICA code to reflect what had happened in upstream ACPICA. Since the upstream updated the copyright year, so did the kernel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
