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]
Message-ID: <Y3J6BetkCdIw7LbZ@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
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

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ