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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:25:25 +0000 From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org> To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 07/28] rust: macros: take string literals in `module!` On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 3:47 PM Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org> wrote: > > > > What's the rationale behind allowing UTF-8? Why not stick with ASCII > > only? > > The reason is that there are already some cases on the C side. > > For authors, there are about 158 non-ASCII in the kernel tree (if I > grepped correctly), e.g.: > > MODULE_AUTHOR("漆鹏振 (Qi Pengzhen) <aric.pzqi@...enic.com>"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Martin Povišer <povik+lin@...ebit.org>"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>"); > > There are also a few descriptions too, e.g.: > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NAND flash driver for OLPC CAFÉ chip"); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NHPoly1305 ε-almost-∆-universal hash function"); Okay. That's fair enough. Thanks, Wei. > > Cheers, > Miguel
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