linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add at24 based EEPROMs to the eeprom

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:25:34 +0100
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Laszlo Papp <lpapp@....org>
Cc:	Curt Brune <curt@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@...il.com>,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	wolfram@...-dreams.de, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add at24 based EEPROMs to the eeprom_dev hardware
 class

Hi,

No need to quote the whole message if you reply only to a bit of it.

> >  module_init(at24_init);
> >
> >  static void __exit at24_exit(void)
> >  {
> >         i2c_del_driver(&at24_driver);
> >  }
> >  module_exit(at24_exit);
> 
> Couldn't you use module_i2c_driver() instead of this?

He didn't write that code. It doesn't have a + at the beginning. He used
the whole driver as context, which is highly unusual. A context of 3
lines is usually good enough.

> 
> >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for most I2C EEPROMs");
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("David Brownell and Wolfram Sang");
> 
> I would personally put your name in here if I were you, otherwise
> David and Wolfram might get contacted by some people instead of you
> (at least based on this).

See above. He changed only 10 lines. Not enough for copyright IMO.

> PS.: Fixing the broken i2c mailing list typo, and updating Wolfram's
> address from the broken (obsolete?) version.

It came through to the i2c list? What was wrong?

Regards,

   Wolfram


Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (837 bytes)