modules missing author name and/or description

modules missing author name and/or description

[Christian Kurz]

Hi,

I just played with lsmod and modinfo and noticed that the following
modules which I use either lack one or both of the information I
mentioned in the description. The following modules lack the name of the
author:

lp.o
parport.o
ipt_REJECT.o
ipt_LOG.o
ipt_state.o
ip_conntrack.o
ip_conntrack_ftp.o
iptable_filter.o
ip_tables.o
slhc.o
jbd.o
unix.o (mentioned in a seperate message already)

The following modules lack a description:

lp.o
parport.o
ipt_REJECT.o
ipt_LOG.o
ipt_state.o
ip_conntrack.o
ip_conntrack_ftp.o
iptable_filter.o
iptables.o
agpgart.o
slhc.o
jbd.o
unix.o

I would be nice if these missing informations would be added to the
modules. This result was produced with the 2.4.20-pre1 kernel.

Christian
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Re: modules missing author name and/or description

[Alexander Viro]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Christian Kurz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just played with lsmod and modinfo and noticed that the following
> modules which I use either lack one or both of the information I
> mentioned in the description. The following modules lack the name of the
> author:
 
[snip the list]

Quite a few modules don't _have_ a single author.  MODULE_AUTHOR is
optional and very dubious at that - especially since we already have
a common way to put attributions in there; just look at the comments
in the beginning of almost any file in the tree.

Re: modules missing author name and/or description

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 13:04 10/08/02, Alexander Viro wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > I just played with lsmod and modinfo and noticed that the following
> > modules which I use either lack one or both of the information I
> > mentioned in the description. The following modules lack the name of the
> > author:
>
>[snip the list]
>
>Quite a few modules don't _have_ a single author.  MODULE_AUTHOR is
>optional and very dubious at that - especially since we already have
>a common way to put attributions in there; just look at the comments
>in the beginning of almost any file in the tree.

Yes, MODULE_MAINTAINER would be way more useful than MODULE_AUTHOR anyway, 
so you know whom to contact about bugs, even when you don't have source 
code at hand to lookup MAINTAINERS file... The original author can be long 
gone and moved onto other things...

Best regards,

         Anton


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Re: modules missing author name and/or description

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> Quite a few modules don't _have_ a single author.  MODULE_AUTHOR is
> optional and very dubious at that

I agree, because of this I didn't add it to affs. MODULE_MAINTAINER
would be better and more useful.

bye, Roman