From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796AEC433E0 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAA12074D for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:59:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1593565168; bh=Ui9UkTv18ZcWXFP55iYLYggDlCSoY3bAUhvI0UuixXk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=ZbK8kHkhoBOau+9wOshfBbExj0zUaxFZ+62ZIEsutYy19KRGPXK9G6O1KOM8GFhfH FIqjAipsR6/QCHe8hDZL0UyGEnkHIFPgDY9OLXuYBhOVlKXMQnmcG8iDeL6sMAiLnC bKlWsqzpchjxc9sHkhKi5TY6aF6FpK+IGFltR95c= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726072AbgGAA71 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:59:27 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52560 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725805AbgGAA71 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:59:27 -0400 Received: from kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com (unknown [163.114.132.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FF4E2073E; Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:59:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1593565166; bh=Ui9UkTv18ZcWXFP55iYLYggDlCSoY3bAUhvI0UuixXk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=mBerGJ06eYMYIbbe2+7hmPOZ0F7N/UXx7o41B7P+638pUc9uTfaJ1V3fuSaIJ1lpD dlWnRwtMHJWqIYY+oqaQmHdb2++Hww92PqGiSK637pwbhxwlPSYlugwFdcMiRsrA4u cum3/XT2U7liVt7Ar2Si+tk+KvbDb7gjc9FHMVAM= Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:59:23 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" , "Brady, Alan" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "nhorman@redhat.com" , "sassmann@redhat.com" , "Michael, Alice" , "Burra, Phani R" , "Hay, Joshua A" , "Chittim, Madhu" , "Linga, Pavan Kumar" , "Skidmore, Donald C" , "Brandeburg, Jesse" , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , lkp Subject: Re: [net-next v3 15/15] idpf: Introduce idpf driver Message-ID: <20200630175923.142777be@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> In-Reply-To: <61CC2BC414934749BD9F5BF3D5D9404498743241@ORSMSX112.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20200626020737.775377-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20200626020737.775377-16-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20200626115236.7f36d379@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <61CC2BC414934749BD9F5BF3D5D9404498743241@ORSMSX112.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:48:34 +0000 Kirsher, Jeffrey T wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:07:37 -0700 Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation, "); > > > > Corporations do not author things, people do. Please drop this. > > Your statement makes sense and I know that we have done this > historically, like several other drivers (not saying it is right). > The thought process was that our drivers are not written by just one > or two people, but more like 20+ developers. So should we list all > 20+ people that wrote the drivers, or just choose one person? Also > what happens when that person no longer works at Intel and the email > is no longer vaild, should we constantly update the MODULE_AUTHOR() > to reflect valid employees working on the driver? That is the reason > we were using "Intel Corporation" and a valid email that will always > be good for support questions. MODULE_AUTHOR() is not required, most of the "documentation" page for this driver is about where to get support, MAINTAINERS exist.. not to mention that this is an upstream driver, so posting to netdev is always appropriate. I think we should be covered.