From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41D1326D4CA; Mon, 9 Mar 2026 06:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773038217; cv=none; b=HcZWSkTUTNETqdrXmYQYcCWrvlVmYAWJMpTpwcm8aorV6h2L4qSriFw8WFQM6tHQzjxsbrzSL4bK9r+AI6jcwA5xl7BkpiL2Dif5Bs7x5LhehRqsqHRxPASUD3Xs6d4YrIvrV92bWmDXef4S8uSBle5ERRBMWutTuGcMlRRx3gw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773038217; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Pgj4R6bQeh6HMXJuLoPivqu3vjWcFEa22yQSHvr8zv4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=clfH9ckbW8x67tLX/jfajhTmsdK37chZ7zg/3qpDyGUQagXrX+kMdluDEwWIwBC8+J58s6P7tW9pJc8F/0HmcypFm0EggiwBvgITi8XUQh3XeJ6VjcrEmAQtcSXe7T403BWh5ljGW2vykEyXSXfAfVjYcsdwhptyZuEQeajoE6Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=gtwvVial; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="gtwvVial" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 35E4BC4CEF7; Mon, 9 Mar 2026 06:36:40 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1773038216; bh=Pgj4R6bQeh6HMXJuLoPivqu3vjWcFEa22yQSHvr8zv4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gtwvVialX+jhd/rtEXsSoghkKV59lcELLWu582bNzCKfZM5iwgmRAH7TQxkpbbhhL pMJijlo4qz7s3Qyl2sWvMZLQZw1no1r8OcgnEry93Y2Do4LzVyyf9ezA2q9zI3lXck 6hy+PSg8E8G49tlc2TlC+8oKLBCKcjnZuUlOYK5v5IX8yKf9yrwN/kGC/2c7wPKdQd UoQc0rNbWR6hmUia8rjyLDShDXxjvqJ40/bSiIapTW0WKT6OaG0ocRUvpULqdtlW14 jIaqubQBGrwJGjBYmYRyE6X1Fdrgt7ywJy132ru/cg5j5dsXWFbjIKBv2OovSywfVH uGNzMM9361/iw== Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 12:06:38 +0530 From: Sumit Garg To: Jeff Johnson Cc: Trilok Soni , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath12k@lists.infradead.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, andersson@kernel.org, konradybcio@kernel.org, robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org, robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com, sean@poorly.run, akhilpo@oss.qualcomm.com, lumag@kernel.org, abhinav.kumar@linux.dev, jesszhan0024@gmail.com, marijn.suijten@somainline.org, airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch, vikash.garodia@oss.qualcomm.com, dikshita.agarwal@oss.qualcomm.com, bod@kernel.org, mchehab@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, jjohnson@kernel.org, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, mukesh.ojha@oss.qualcomm.com, pavan.kondeti@oss.qualcomm.com, jorge.ramirez@oss.qualcomm.com, tonyh@qti.qualcomm.com, vignesh.viswanathan@oss.qualcomm.com, srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com, amirreza.zarrabi@oss.qualcomm.com, jens.wiklander@linaro.org, op-tee@lists.trustedfirmware.org, apurupa@qti.qualcomm.com, skare@qti.qualcomm.com, Sumit Garg Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] firmware: qcom: Add a generic PAS service Message-ID: References: <20260306105027.290375-1-sumit.garg@kernel.org> <20260306105027.290375-3-sumit.garg@kernel.org> <13091f47-938d-43fb-a8c0-4b081818b557@oss.qualcomm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13091f47-938d-43fb-a8c0-4b081818b557@oss.qualcomm.com> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 02:00:48PM -0800, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 3/6/2026 11:47 AM, Trilok Soni wrote: > > On 3/6/2026 2:50 AM, Sumit Garg wrote: > >> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > >> +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. -Sumit