linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 1/9] crypto: Add support for ECDSA signature verification

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Message-ID: <20210305175835.armhwbivd4g6w273@altlinux.org>
Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 20:58:35 +0300
From:   Vitaly Chikunov <vt@...linux.org>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        dhowells@...hat.com, zohar@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patrick@...terwijk.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/9] crypto: Add support for ECDSA signature
 verification

Jarkko,

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 07:05:39PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 07:51:55PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > +module_exit(ecdsa_exit);
> > +
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>");
> 
> Remove MODULE_AUTHOR(). It's redundant because of Git.

When it's decided that MODULE_AUTHOR is redundant because of git?
I don't see MODULE_AUTHOR define expanding to nothing in module.h.
Also, this info is shown for end user in modinfo. And kernel is still
distributed as a tarball on kernel.org.

Thanks,