Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:22:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:34:13 +0200
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Jun 6 2007 11:05, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > >
> > > > - Source files should be 7bit ASCII
> > > 
> > > Nah. Think of....
> > > 
> > > MODULE_AUTHOR("J. Ørsted <jorsted@foobar.com>");
> > >...
> > 
> > NO!
> > 
> > Code must be 7bit ASCII.
> > This includes everything that gets into the kernel image.
> 
> Disagree Adrian
> 
> For quoted strings you want to include Unicode where appropriate, and the
> names of people happens to be highly appropriate. Trashing non US names
> is just rude, and in many cases extremely problematic because losing
> accent marks totally changes the meaning of the word and the
> pronunciation of the name.
> 
> Now anyone who puts UTF-8 in the driver name or module options should get
> a lot of NAKs but putting it in the Author name is precisely where it is
> appropriate and correct. I suspect Author names are almost the only case
> where this is appropriate and/or neccessary.

I added a MODULE_AUTHOR("J. Ørsted <jorsted@foobar.com>") into the "raw" 
module:

# echo $LANG
C
# modinfo --version
module-init-tools version 3.3-pre11
# modinfo raw
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.21.2/kernel/drivers/char/raw.ko
author:         J. Ã
                    ^ the cursor hangs here


So for implementing your proposal, we have to:
- get module-init-tools fixed and
- document that 2.6.23 (or whichever will be the first kernel to support 
  UTF-8 in MODULE_AUTHOR) will require updated module-init-tools.


Oh, and when you are anyway planning to break older userspace, can you 
remove the obsolete "raw" driver at the same time?  ;-)


> Alan

cu
Adrian

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