Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] clk: qcom: dispcc-eliza: Add Eliza display clock controller support

From: Dmitry Baryshkov

Date: Wed Mar 18 2026 - 09:51:26 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 12:36:24PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 18/03/2026 12:32, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> > On 3/18/26 12:13 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 18/03/2026 11:48, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> >>> On 3/18/26 11:39 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>>> Add a driver for the display clock controller on Qualcomm Eliza SoC,
> >>>> which is copied from SM8750 driver plus changes:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Additional DT_HDMI_PHY_PLL_CLK clock input,
> >>>> 2. Eight new HDMI clocks,
> >>>> 3. Different PLLs (lucid and pongo).
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> >>>> +/*
> >>>> + * Copyright (c) 2021, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
> >>>> + * Copyright (c) 2023-2024, Linaro Ltd.
> >>>> + * Copyright (c) 2024-2025, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
> >>>
> >>> -> Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
> >>
> >> That's the copyright I found in the downstream code I used in few places
> >> here (with modifications) and I am not touching them. I also don't care
> >> about these and I am surprised this keeps popping in community review...
> >
> > You may not care, but our legal department does..
>
> And your task as community maintainer is to care about community and
> Linux kernel, not about legal department.
>
> Legal department can comment here, if they care. You as maintainer have
> rather responsibilities regardless of that legal department.
>
> Don't bring corpo legal stuff to the community.

Then please follow the internal company guidelines as outlined in the
legal&marketing documents.

JFYI, several other Qualcomm maintainers also enforce use of copyright
headers for Qualcomm-provided patches. Konrad is not unique here.

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With best wishes
Dmitry