netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 01/16] net: iosm: entry point

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:03:28 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     M Chetan Kumar <m.chetan.kumar@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, krishna.c.sudi@...el.com,
        linuxwwan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/16] net: iosm: entry point

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:51:44AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 08:44 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > 
> > > +#define DRV_AUTHOR "Intel Corporation <linuxwwan@...el.com>"
> > 
> > Driver author can't be a company. It needs to be a person.
> 
> Most of
> 
> 	git grep MODULE_AUTHOR|grep Inc
> 
> disagrees.

Did you actually look on the output of that grep?

We have three types of MODULE_AUTHOR(..) there
1. Really old code with non-existent companies
2. People who added their names together with the company name
3. Heavy copy/pasted code

MODULE_AUTHOR is not copyright which (usually) goes to the company that
sponsored the work, but can be seen as git commit author in pre-historic
days.

So no, old doesn't mean correct.

Thanks

> 
> johannes
>