Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/15] idpf: add module register and probe functionality

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:54:29 +0300

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:34:23AM -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> On 5/30/2023 11:05 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 04:44:48PM -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> >> From: Phani Burra <[email-masked]>
> ...
> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 000000000000..e290f560ce14
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
> >> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> >> +/* Copyright (C) 2023 Intel Corporation */
> >> +
> >> +#include "idpf.h"
> >> +#include "idpf_devids.h"
> >> +
> >> +#define DRV_SUMMARY	"Infrastructure Data Path Function Linux Driver"
> > 
> > Do you want to stick Intel(R) here as well?
> 
> That would be ok with me, we'll discuss internally.
> 
> > And did you say you wanted to add a version?
> 
> In-kernel drivers use the kernel version for the MODULE_VERSION field.
> 
> > The point being making it possible to distinguish
> > between this one and the one we'll hopefully have down
> > the road binding to the IDPF class/prog ifc.
> > 
> >> +
> >> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRV_SUMMARY);
> >> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> Just noticed that we appear to have missed the MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel
> Corporation")

I'm not a lawyer, but company can't be author. It holds copyright to the work.

Thanks