Em Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:26:00 +0200
Johan Hovold [off-list ref] escreveu:

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 03:08:00PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
  

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Em Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:33:28 +0100
Lee Jones [off-list ref] escreveu:  

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--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/mfd/hi6421-spmi-pmic.c

@@ -0,0 +1,316 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Device driver for regulators in HISI PMIC IC
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Linaro Ltd.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Hisilicon.
+ * Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd    

Can this be updated?  

Do you mean updating the copyrights to cover this year? E.g.
something like this:

	 * Copyright (c) 2013-2021 Linaro Ltd.
	 * Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Hisilicon.
	 * Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd  

Right? Or are you meaning something else?  

Yes, that's it.  I know this is just a move, but to MFD, it's new.  

That's not how copyright works. Unless Linaro and Hisilicon made
nontrivial changes every year from 2011/2013 to 2021 you should not
change those lines like this.

Only Linaro can answer what happened up to 2018, as this driver 
originally came from a Linaro tree, which has exactly one commit
for this driver:

	https://github.com/96boards-hikey/linux/commit/08464419fba2417aa849fce976fac9c5f51b3ada#diff-604ef8563dcd9ace6e3e58aac38337c72924b0889f6972d7ee9e15e2335ba964

After merged upstream at staging, all changes are covered by the
Huawei's copyright (2020-2021).

So, I'll just drop this patch. If the information is not accurate,
someone from the original copyright holders can send followup
patches.

Thanks,
Mauro