From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B80AC10F27 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC942082F for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:16:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583921811; bh=ao16VUD39NcqXQan2raSpeGb8J8BV+ZcPrb5tn9PXhk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=BRwnhYhG2D+Pg9oh5/IVqs3GxdtTW68Cl99zgyAQBOerr/v2CLXy1s0Iw+sC4zgIw RZeX4T4ifRu2UvUwHzXo36rxsBMwF4kHkph9nGljqMOsoEbDmk456tCb1Gw3gZntda mxABEsN7zKrs1CU7tkQYYUqFawTxuhjxj2Mh57kg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728255AbgCKKQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:16:50 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52100 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725976AbgCKKQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:16:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [213.57.247.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC4352082F; Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:16:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583921809; bh=ao16VUD39NcqXQan2raSpeGb8J8BV+ZcPrb5tn9PXhk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=qvw48Wkya2Tgmm7RBRqoxQwa6Qdi6OUTeBXPclgHOkG5Z44o8cmcQVHOUpHilfq2M j3bPVoWmO9C8ifbKBuiUjO9KFSr+cG8RWRZmP9Qudia7ryoQwKbG/oR9eAx4WLMmxu AYR+Qh/X802GqY4W7tbYFO8qxKjaEfIJorTzYDyw= Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:16:46 +0200 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Sunil Kovvuri Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Linux Netdev List , "David S. Miller" , Tomasz Duszynski , Subbaraya Sundeep , Geetha sowjanya , Sunil Goutham Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] octeontx2-vf: Virtual function driver dupport Message-ID: <20200311101646.GJ4215@unreal> References: <1583866045-7129-1-git-send-email-sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com> <1583866045-7129-4-git-send-email-sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com> <20200310144320.4f691cb6@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:44:00PM +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:13 AM Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:17:22 +0530 sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com wrote: > > > +#define DRV_NAME "octeontx2-nicvf" > > > +#define DRV_STRING "Marvell OcteonTX2 NIC Virtual Function Driver" > > > +#define DRV_VERSION "1.0" > > > > Please drop the driver version, kernel version should be used upstream. > > > > Okay, will do. > > > > + > > > +static const struct pci_device_id otx2_vf_id_table[] = { > > > + { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_AFVF) }, > > > + { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_CAVIUM, PCI_DEVID_OCTEONTX2_RVU_VF) }, > > > + { } > > > +}; > > > + > > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Marvell International Ltd."); > > > > Only people can be authors, please put your name here or remove this. > > > > Just for my understanding, is this due to a decision taken in netdev recently ? > I have searched through all drivers in netdev and there is a mix of > organizations and individuals as AUTHORS. > Here we used org name to avoid specifying multiple names. It was always the case in all subsystems. The authorship belongs to the developer and not to the company. In opposite to the copyright. Thanks