On 3/8/2026 11:36 PM, Sumit Garg wrote:
> 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.
I would prefer the maintainers entry than MODULE_AUTHOR.
---Trilok Soni
