From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965151AbWFTIG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:06:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965152AbWFTIG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:06:58 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:47048 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965151AbWFTIG5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:06:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4497AC8D.6000808@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:06:37 +0200 From: Jes Sorensen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" 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 References: <20060619085855.277cd217.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060619085855.277cd217.rdunlap@xenotime.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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