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>>>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sumit Garg "); >>> >>> 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