Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] gpio: loongson1: Convert to SPDX identifier

From: Keguang Zhang
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 21:46:46 EST


On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 9:31 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:25 AM Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:29 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 1:52 PM Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Use SPDX-License-Identifier instead of the license text and
> > > > update the author information.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Keguang Zhang <keguang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > > Why are you removing credits of the old author?
>
> > Kelvin Cheung and Keguang Zhang are the same person.
> > This change is to keep pace with the related entry of MAINTAINERS.
>
> That's a pretty interesting change!
>
> Is Kelvin Cheung the "westernized" name and Keguang Zhang the
> closer to the real name, such as pinyin form? That would make
> a lot of sense.
>
Exactly.
Kelvin Cheung is easy to pronounce, but has no direct relationship
with my real name.
Keguang Zhang, the Pinyin form of my real name, is the official name.
That is why I'd like to make this change.

> I think some authors even use the native characters these days,
> as git and all tools and terminals should support Unicode now.
> It might make it hard for us to answer mails (not knowing which
> characters to refer to as given name) but I kind of like it when I
> see it.
>
Yes, I did see the names written in native characters.
But it's even harder for western people to identify.
Maybe the real name with native characters + "westernized" name is better.

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij



--
Best regards,

Kelvin Cheung