On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:13:27AM +0200, Lothar Wassmann wrote: > Hi Russell and David, > > Russell King writes: > > File comments are important, and we as a whole community should be > > jumping on people who do not correctly modify these as soon as they > > send a driver for review. It is simply not acceptable to claim that > > someone else owns the work when they've never seen it. > > > I agree with you and must admit that I didn't care enough about the > code comments. :( > In fact my code is based partly on the ohci-sa1111.c code. That's why > those comments are still present. I only noticed the missing/wrong > comments when I had already sent out the code and already modified my > local sources accordingly.
Yup - please be aware that the code has found its way into various "private" repositories already with the bad attributation so there's no way to stop it spreading now. It means that such attributations have to be correct from day one to ensure that the (essentially unsolvable) issue doesn't arise. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
