[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 01/10] drm: Extract drm_dumb_buffers.c

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Nov 15 11:58:28 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:42:08AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..4b4364b61c8d
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
> > > +/*
> > > + * Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation
> > 
> > I've mentioned this elsewhere, but we should also retain the original
> > copyright statements for the code we are copying.
> 
> Given that we're super-not-dutiful with updating them I figured point at
> git log with rename detection is good enough. But fixed (same for the
> later ones).

I agree that git gives more traceablity to authorship (if not
necessarily to whom that author has transfered the copyright for the work),
but I feel if we are adding a blanket copyright clause we should
recognise the validity of the earlier ones as well.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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