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 6C675C0044D for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32AAC2074C for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:24:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583961895; bh=Q9rhNlQyQLDuhvVKV1SzvfWQ+1E8JgIZRk3myxlv2nU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=oIYANhWs7fIsH2QXz3F4g9ZpSN6HeIQUszIDRlluIIDdd6fa3w5OS5S7djVkCbdeZ BB0u48YiEaIA0VwPecVnCFwUuueJPog/rFqodHeuDGzlpxW4ysq9h4w0stix18MZFx UBb22lV1VY62oqbHWuG1GcgodD7hp5pDXhPBCASc= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729469AbgCKVYx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:24:53 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:58014 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729102AbgCKVYx (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:24:53 -0400 Received: from kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN (unknown [163.114.132.128]) (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 359FB2074C; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:24:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583961893; bh=Q9rhNlQyQLDuhvVKV1SzvfWQ+1E8JgIZRk3myxlv2nU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=KDobOvjDY6+YPr0toVbzLvUFmRqNdpkVFA0WZM6b8pZNLWQHM/2/m0w7N73D912OC bZ5O0AILNzirbocKDFHOu6PvC3fVFow77AyBuIHHFOd+ciy3iZHo7VFMEmuRAs2x6y F3g2UIBqYJrBOkrnzTFZUs16tJ7RMdDZNRCYGXeM= Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:24:50 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Sunil Kovvuri , Linux Netdev List , "David S. Miller" , Tomasz Duszynski , Subbaraya Sundeep , Geetha sowjanya , Sunil Goutham Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] octeontx2-vf: Virtual function driver dupport Message-ID: <20200311142450.6f30fffa@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN> In-Reply-To: <20200311101646.GJ4215@unreal> References: <1583866045-7129-1-git-send-email-sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com> <1583866045-7129-4-git-send-email-sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com> <20200310144320.4f691cb6@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN> <20200311101646.GJ4215@unreal> 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 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:16:46 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:44:00PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:13 AM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > +static const struct pci_device_id otx2_vf_id_table[] = { > > > > + { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_AFVF) }, > > > > + { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_VF) }, > > > > + { } > > > > +}; > > > > + > > > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Marvell International Ltd."); > > > > > > Only people can be authors, please put your name here or remove this. > > > > > > > Just for my understanding, is this due to a decision taken in netdev recently ? > > I have searched through all drivers in netdev and there is a mix of > > organizations and individuals as AUTHORS. > > Here we used org name to avoid specifying multiple names. > > It was always the case in all subsystems. The authorship belongs to the developer > and not to the company. In opposite to the copyright. Yup. The enforcement hasn't been perfect since it's a hard thing to add to checkpatch etc. But since it jumped out I thought I'd mention it. Here's me complaining on another Marvell driver submission recently ;) https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200229181214.46c2a495@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/