[PATCH] powerpc: Transliterate author name and remove FIXME

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Nov 11 12:11:34 AEDT 2024


Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev> writes:
> The name is Mimi Phuong-Thao Vo.
 
Is that the correct spelling?

The github commit below suggests it's Mimi Phûông-Thåo Võ.

And presumably the author preferred that spelling, otherwise they would
have just written it in ASCII in the first place.

https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/6603bf38d74409906b3814f6a26c0483a5d32e41

cheers

> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum at linux.dev>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/boot/rs6000.h | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/rs6000.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/rs6000.h
> index a9d879155ef9..16df8f3c43f1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/rs6000.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/rs6000.h
> @@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
>  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>  /* IBM RS/6000 "XCOFF" file definitions for BFD.
>     Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> -   FIXME: Can someone provide a transliteration of this name into ASCII?
> -   Using the following chars caused a compiler warning on HIUX (so I replaced
> -   them with octal escapes), and isn't useful without an understanding of what
> -   character set it is.
> -   Written by Mimi Ph\373\364ng-Th\345o V\365 of IBM
> +   Written by Mimi Phuong-Thao Vo of IBM
>     and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support.  */
>  
>  /********************** FILE HEADER **********************/
> -- 
> 2.47.0


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