Hi Alexander,

thanks for trying to fix this, yet I have some doubts.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:

Rationale:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20200626110706.7b5d4a38@lwn.net/ (local)

I think we need some text here. Clicking on a link to understand what a
patch is about is not comfortable. You can add the link with a Link: tag
for additional information.

Removing stale email addresses may have some value, but removing...

 Compaq's Bootldr + John Dorsey's patch for Assabet support
-(http://www.handhelds.org/Compaq/bootldr.html)

... information like this is not good. 'Wayback machine' still has
copies in case someone wants to look at where the infos came from.

- * Copyright 2004-2005  Phil Blundell [off-list ref]
+ * Copyright 2004-2005  Phil Blundell

This is an OK case in my book...

-MODULE_AUTHOR("Phil Blundell [off-list ref]");
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Phil Blundell");

... same here ...

This is kind of a signature and should be kept IMO.

  * 2001/07/23: [off-list ref]
- *	- Hand merge version from handhelds.org CVS tree.  See patch
+ *	- Hand merge version from CVS tree.  See patch

That information may be useful.

 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
 /* -*- linux-c -*-
- *
- * (C) 2003 zecke@handhelds.org

Removing copyright is a bad idea.

Probably some comment blocks are cruft meanwhile and can be removed as a
whole. That can be discussed. But removing only the handhelds.org part
makes most parts worse IMHO.

Thanks and happy hacking,

   Wolfram