linux-kernel - Re: MODULE

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Date:	Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:06:09 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Hi Alan,

> > Given that people seem to agree that authorship information has no place 
> > in the binary, that might actually be best.
> 
> Authorship information is very useful in the binary, especially when you
> have to get lawyers involved in explaining things to people. Company
> business and management people understand
> 
> "load it into a binary editor, search for Alan Cox, now call your lawyer"
> 
> trying to prove a given source is a given binary is much much harder.
> 
> > So, MODULE_AUTHOR be gone?
> 
> Not if I have anything to do with it. Putting maintainer in is not a bad
> idea but that assumes it gets maintained, the beauty of _AUTHOR is that
> it's generally right and stays that way or approximately so.

removing the MODULE_AUTHOR is a bad idea. I really like to call modinfo
and see who maintains a specific driver.

Regards

Marcel


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