From: Trilok Soni <trilokkumar.soni@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] firmware: qcom: Add a generic PAS service
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:33:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0532de0-40a6-42b9-8936-933c31251d5e@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa5qdscMRq7abfwT@sumit-xelite>
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 <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>");
>>>
>>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 10:50 [PATCH 00/14] firmware: qcom: Add OP-TEE PAS service support Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 01/14] arm64: dts: qcom: kodiak: Add EL2 overlay Sumit Garg
2026-03-09 8:00 ` Mukesh Ojha
2026-03-09 8:09 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 02/14] firmware: qcom: Add a generic PAS service Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 11:15 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-09 4:55 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-09 7:10 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-09 7:16 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-10 4:58 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 15:40 ` Jeff Johnson
2026-03-06 15:49 ` Jeff Johnson
2026-03-09 5:03 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 19:47 ` Trilok Soni
2026-03-06 20:00 ` Trilok Soni
2026-03-06 22:00 ` Jeff Johnson
2026-03-06 22:16 ` Trilok Soni
2026-03-09 6:36 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-10 7:33 ` Trilok Soni [this message]
2026-03-09 6:25 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 03/14] firmware: qcom_scm: Migrate to " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 04/14] firmware: qcom: Add a PAS TEE service Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 05/14] remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_pas: Switch over to generic PAS TZ APIs Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 06/14] remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_mss: Switch " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 07/14] soc: qcom: mdtloader: " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 08/14] remoteproc: qcom_wcnss: " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 09/14] remoteproc: qcom: Select QCOM_PAS_TEE service backend Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 10/14] drm/msm: Switch to generic PAS TZ APIs Sumit Garg
2026-03-25 4:34 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2026-03-26 8:50 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 11/14] media: qcom: " Sumit Garg
2026-03-09 9:12 ` Jorge Ramirez
2026-03-10 5:04 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-10 11:18 ` Konrad Dybcio
2026-03-11 5:47 ` Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 12/14] net: ipa: " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 13/14] wifi: ath12k: " Sumit Garg
2026-03-06 15:52 ` Jeff Johnson
2026-03-06 10:50 ` [PATCH 14/14] firmware: qcom_scm: Remove SCM PAS wrappers Sumit Garg
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