Re: [PATCH v2] Add reverse Christmas tree to CONTRIBUTING.md

On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:07:48 +0800 Yumei Huang wrote:

Also fix the copyright line.

As far as I know, in some jurisdictions, the year *as stated in the copyright notice* isn't _entirely_ irrelevant, but I don't think we care about these small details after all. Both forms are totally fine I think, so it's not something we really need to fix. It's up to single contributors (and, possibly, where they live / work).

Suggested-by: Stefano Brivio Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 75ad2a7..64c191f 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <!--- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later -Copyright (c) 2025 Red Hat +Copyright Red Hat Author: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com> -->

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ to prepare patches and participate in the email-based review process.

* Edit the source code or documentation following the [Linux kernel coding style](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html). + When adding or editing local variable declarations, please use the reverse + Christmas tree as described + [here](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst) + and [here](https://hisham.hm/2018/06/16/when-listing-repeated-things-make-pyramids/).

* Stage your changes:

Applied, thanks for following up. -- Stefano