Date:   Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:57:02 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Mike Ximing Chen <mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
        dan.j.williams@intel.com, pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 01/17] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 08:12:00AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:50:31AM -0600, Mike Ximing Chen wrote:
> > +/* Copyright(C) 2016-2020 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. */
> 
> So you did not touch this at all in 2021?  And it had a copyrightable
> changed added to it for every year, inclusive, from 2016-2020?
> 
> Please run this past your lawyers on how to do this properly.

Ah, this was a "throw it over the fence at the community to handle for
me before I go on vacation" type of posting, based on your autoresponse
email that happened when I sent this.

That too isn't the most kind thing, would you want to be the reviewer of
this if it were sent to you?  Please take some time and start doing
patch reviews for the char/misc drivers on the mailing list before
submitting any more new code.

Also, this patch series goes agains the internal rules that I know your
company has, why is that?  Those rules are there for a good reason, and
by ignoring them, it's going to make it much harder to get patches to be
reviewed.

best of luck!

greg k-h