Re: [PATCH 02/13] x86, vmlinux.lds: unify header/footer

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 04:05:46 EST



* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Merge everything except PHDRS and SECTIONS into
> vmlinux.lds.S
> No functional changes.
>
> This include the removal of an ancient comment that
> Martin Mares wrote this file.

> -/* ld script to make i386 Linux
> - * Written by Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;

That's a historic copyright notice in essence which we should not
remove - we should preserve that as:

> + Original 32-bit version written by Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(preferably with a date-of-that-original-patch inserted as well)

Ingo
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