Re: [PATCHv12 8/9] serial: qcom_geni_serial: Disable MMIO tracing for geni serial

[Trilok Soni]

On 4/28/2022 9:49 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:31:43AM -0700, Trilok Soni wrote:
> > On 4/28/2022 3:50 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:25:31PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> > > > Disable MMIO tracing for geni serial driver as it is a high
> > > > frequency operation for serial driver with many register reads/
> > > > writes and not very useful to log all MMIO traces and prevent
> > > > excessive logging.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >    drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 8 +++++++-
> > > >    1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> > > > index 1543a6028856..5b48e6c2bf3c 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c
> > > > @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
> > > >    // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > -// Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Linux foundation. All rights reserved.
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > > > + */
> > >
> > > I strongly disagree that adding a single line here warrants a copyright
> > > update.  If your lawyers will sign off on this change, I am willing to
> > > reconsider.
> >
> > I am not a lawyer, we can skip adding QuIC copyright here since it is just
> > one line change, but at the same time we can't add 2022 year in the existing
> > copyright.
>
> That is correct, because you are not making a copyrightable change,
> otherwise the single line addition would be ok.
>
> Talk to your lawyers about this :)
>
> > If that is fine, we can skip the copyright year update entirely.
>
> Please do.

Sai, please go ahead and remove QuIC copyright line here.

---Trilok Soni