linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/10] introduce intel_menlow platform specific driver

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Message-ID: <20080121095331.GA5333@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:53:31 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:	lenb@...nel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sujith.thomas@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/10] introduce intel_menlow platform specific driver

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:51:17PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> From: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@...el.com>
> 
> Intel menlow platform specific driver for thermal management.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Sujith <sujith.thomas@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig        |   10 
>  drivers/misc/Makefile       |    1 
>  drivers/misc/intel_menlow.c |  527 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Why is this in drivers/misc?  I don't have a thermal.h in mainline, but
if this is a new subsystem your adding care to create a directory under
drivers/ for it?

> +/*
> +*  intel_menlow.c - Intel menlow Driver for thermal management extension
> +*
> +*  Copyright (C) 2008 Intel Corp
> +*  Copyright (C) 2008 Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@...el.com>
> +*  Copyright (C) 2008 Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>

Please add a whitespace before the * so they line up.

> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Thomas Sujith");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Zhang Rui");

I've never seen a driver with two MODULE_AUTHOR statements before.  Does
this actually work?  What does modinfo -F author say for your module?

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