From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, cotte@de.ibm.com,
bjorn_helgaas@hp.com
Subject: Re: [patch] mspec
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:06:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4497AC8D.6000808@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060619085855.277cd217.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2006 05:20:23 -0400 Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Silicon Graphics, Inc.");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for SGI SN special memory operations");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> +MODULE_INFO(supported, "external");
>
> What does that last line mean? what does "external" mean?
> There are no other source files in the 2.6.17 tree that say
> anything like that.
Hi Randy,
I actually don't know where that comes from, we can just say supported.
> And of the 1800+ MODULE_AUTHOR() lines, SGI seems to be
> dominant is using company instead of a person for AUTHOR.
> Yes, there are a few others as well.
I inherited the code from someone else who probably inherited it parts
of it from somewhere else. However the point is that SGI as a company is
willing to take responsibility for the code.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-20 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-19 9:20 [patch] mspec Jes Sorensen
2006-06-19 15:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-20 8:06 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-06-20 11:08 ` Robin Holt
2006-06-20 10:23 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-06-20 16:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-27 12:50 ` Jes Sorensen
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