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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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