On 3/6/2026 2:00 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 3/6/2026 11:47 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
>> On 3/6/2026 2:50 AM, Sumit Garg wrote:
>>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sumit Garg <[email protected]>");
>>
>> What is the convention for Qualcomm authored drivers? In some drivers
>> I find that Qualcomm doesn't add MODULE_AUTHOR. Can Qualcomm community
>> clarify it here. I prefer consistency here for the Qualcomm submissions.
>
> WLAN team was told to not have MODULE_AUTHOR(), so ath10k was the last WLAN
> driver that had a MODULE_AUTHOR() -- ath11k and ath12k do not have one.
>
> And in reality it is very rare for a given module, over time, to only have a
> single author. The git history contains the real authorship. So just for that
> reason I'd drop it.
I agree and that is the same guideline I follow for the drivers we write
downstream. I just want to make sure that we discuss it here. We may not be able
to find one single solution, but I prefer to get consistency for Qualcomm
submissions.
---Trilok Soni
