Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/14] watchdog/hardlockup: Decouple the hardlockup detector from perf

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 17:19:32 EST


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * Detect hard lockups on a system
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) Intel Corporation 2019
> + *
> + * Note: All of this code comes from the original perf-specific hardlockup
> + * detector.

And because you copied it from there without modification this becomes
automatically Copyrighted by Intel?

May I recommend that you talk to your legal departement about this.

Aside of that there is really no value in creating yet another file. The
code in question can simply wrapped into a large #ifdef PERF in the old
file.

Thanks,

tglx