Re: [PATCH] scsi: pm8001: add MODULE_AUTHOR entries for new contributors

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 4/22/26 06:22, Sagar Biradar wrote:
> Add MODULE_AUTHOR declarations for the developers who have
> been actively working on the pm8001/pm80xx driver in recent years.
> 
> This helps properly credit the people involved in the ongoing
> maintenance and the current upstreaming effort.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Biradar <sagar.biradar@microchip.com>

Well, if you go there, then you are really missing *a lot* of people.
Just run:

git shortlog -n -s -- drivers/scsi/pm8001

and see the ranking by number of commits.

So in the end, I really do not see the point of this patch since git log can
give a full (and correct) list of contributors.

> ---
>  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c
> index e93ea76b565e..487f9bc237ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c
> @@ -1569,6 +1569,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Anand Kumar Santhanam <AnandKumar.Santhanam@pmcs.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Sangeetha Gnanasekaran <Sangeetha.Gnanasekaran@pmcs.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Nikith Ganigarakoppal <Nikith.Ganigarakoppal@pmcs.com>");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Abhinav Kuchibhotla <Abhinav.Kuchibhotla@microchip.com>");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Kumar Meiyappan <Kumar.Meiyappan@microchip.com>");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sagar Biradar <Sagar.Biradar@microchip.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(
>  		"PMC-Sierra PM8001/8006/8081/8088/8089/8074/8076/8077/8070/8072 "
>  		"SAS/SATA controller driver");


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research