From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
"Kelley, Sean V" <sean.v.kelley@intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] cxl/mem: Add a driver for the type-3 mailbox
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:56:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201116165623.GA23268@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iA_hNc=xdcbR-eb57W9o4br1BognSr5Sj4pAO3uMm69g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:17:37AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > +config CXL_MEM
> > > + tristate "CXL.mem Device Support"
> > > + depends on PCI && CXL_BUS_PROVIDER != n
> >
> > depend on PCI && CXL_BUS_PROVIDER
> >
> > > + default m if CXL_BUS_PROVIDER
> >
> > Please don't set weird defaults for new code. Especially not default
> > to module crap like this.
>
> This goes back to what people like Dave C. asked for LIBNVDIMM / DAX,
> a way to blanket turn on a subsystem without needing to go hunt down
> individual configs.
Then at least do a
default CXL_BUS_PROVIDER
but we really don't do this elsewhere. E.g. we don't default the scsi
disk driver on if there is some host adapter selected.
> > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> >
> > A module author is not a company.
>
> At least I don't have a copyright assignment clause, I don't agree
> with the vanity of listing multiple people here especially when
> MAINTAINERS has the contact info, and I don't want to maintain a list
> as people do drive-by contributions and we need to figure out at what
> level of contribution mandates a new MODULE_AUTHOR line. Now, that
> said I would be ok to duplicate the MAINTAINERS as MODULE_AUTHOR
> lines, but I otherwise expect MAINTAINERS is the central source for
> module contact info.
IMHO MODULE_AUTHOR is completely pointless. I haven't used for ~15
years. Especially as the concept that a module has a single author
is a rather strange one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-11 5:43 [RFC PATCH 0/9] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] cxl/acpi: Add an acpi_cxl module for the CXL interconnect Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 6:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 7:30 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-11 7:34 ` hch
2020-11-11 7:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-11 23:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-16 17:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-16 18:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2020-11-17 14:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-17 21:45 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-18 11:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] cxl/acpi: add OSC support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-16 17:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-16 23:25 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-18 12:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-11-18 17:58 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] cxl/mem: Add a driver for the type-3 mailbox Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 6:17 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 7:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 17:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 18:27 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 21:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-11 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-16 16:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-11-13 18:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:08 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-15 0:23 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-17 14:49 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-12-04 7:22 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 7:27 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 17:39 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] cxl/mem: Map memory device registers Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 18:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:12 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-16 23:19 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-17 0:23 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-23 19:20 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-23 19:32 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-23 19:58 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:00 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 18:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-14 1:36 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:15 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-24 0:17 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-26 6:05 ` Jon Masters
2020-11-26 18:18 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-12-04 7:35 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-04 7:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-12-07 6:12 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] cxl/mem: Initialize the mailbox interface Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:22 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] cxl/mem: Implement polled mode mailbox Ben Widawsky
2020-11-13 23:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-17 15:31 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-17 16:34 ` Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 18:06 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-17 18:38 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices Ben Widawsky
2020-11-17 15:56 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-20 2:16 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-20 15:20 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-11-11 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers of the CXL driver Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 22:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] CXL 2.0 Support Ben Widawsky
2020-11-11 22:43 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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