netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] octeontx2-vf: Virtual function driver dupport

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Message-ID: <20200311142450.6f30fffa@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:24:50 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@...vell.com>,
        Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] octeontx2-vf: Virtual function driver
 dupport

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:16:46 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:44:00PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:13 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:  
> > > > +static const struct pci_device_id otx2_vf_id_table[] = {
> > > > +     { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_AFVF) },
> > > > +     { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_VF) },
> > > > +     { }
> > > > +};
> > > > +
> > > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Marvell International Ltd.");  
> > >
> > > Only people can be authors, please put your name here or remove this.
> > >  
> >
> > Just for my understanding, is this due to a decision taken in netdev recently ?
> > I have searched through all drivers in netdev and there is a mix of
> > organizations and individuals as AUTHORS.
> > Here we used org name to avoid specifying multiple names.  
> 
> It was always the case in all subsystems. The authorship belongs to the developer
> and not to the company. In opposite to the copyright.

Yup. The enforcement hasn't been perfect since it's a hard thing to add
to checkpatch etc. But since it jumped out I thought I'd mention it.

Here's me complaining on another Marvell driver submission recently ;)

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200229181214.46c2a495@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/