Re: [PATCH] xfs: move error injection tags into their own file

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On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:22:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:31:28PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Move the error injection tag names into a libxfs header so that we can
> > share it between kernel and userspace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Simple enough, but there's an admin problem with this patch.
> 
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..0cc1c05
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_errortag.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
> > +/*
> > + * Copyright (C) 2017 Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
> > + *
> > + * Author: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This isn't actually true. You're moving a bunch of code from
> fs/xfs/xfs_error.h that is under:
> 
>  * Copyright (c) 2000-2002,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>  * All Rights Reserved.
> 
> Moving code into a new file does not reassign the copyright on the
> code to a new owner. Hence I think this is the appropriate way to
> record the copyrights on this new file:
> 
>  * Copyright (c) 2000-2002,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>  * Copyright (C) 2017 Oracle.
>  * All Rights Reserved.
> 
> And there's no real need for author tags as we've got that
> information in the git repo....

Works for me.  I wasn't really sure whose copyright really applied to
changes like this -- the one in the source file?  The person who creates
the new file?  Every last person who ever touched it?  etc.

They don't teach this stuff in maintainer school. :/

Will repost w/ revised copyright notice.

--D

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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