Hi Alan, > > Given that people seem to agree that authorship information has no place > > in the binary, that might actually be best. > > Authorship information is very useful in the binary, especially when you > have to get lawyers involved in explaining things to people. Company > business and management people understand > > "load it into a binary editor, search for Alan Cox, now call your lawyer" > > trying to prove a given source is a given binary is much much harder. > > > So, MODULE_AUTHOR be gone? > > Not if I have anything to do with it. Putting maintainer in is not a bad > idea but that assumes it gets maintained, the beauty of _AUTHOR is that > it's generally right and stays that way or approximately so.
removing the MODULE_AUTHOR is a bad idea. I really like to call modinfo and see who maintains a specific driver. Regards Marcel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
