On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 02:00:48PM -0800, 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.
As I said in my other reply, it is quite subsystem specific.
>
> 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.
Sure, but you would like the driver author to be involved in future
maintenence of the driver. In my experience that's how usually the kernel
development process works. If a separate maintainer's entry is fine then I
can switch to that instead.
-Sumit
