Re: [PATCH v10 1/9] crypto: Add support for ECDSA signature verification

From: Vitaly Chikunov
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 12:59:36 EST


Jarkko,

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 07:05:39PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 07:51:55PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > +module_exit(ecdsa_exit);
> > +
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
>
> Remove MODULE_AUTHOR(). It's redundant because of Git.

When it's decided that MODULE_AUTHOR is redundant because of git?
I don't see MODULE_AUTHOR define expanding to nothing in module.h.
Also, this info is shown for end user in modinfo. And kernel is still
distributed as a tarball on kernel.org.

Thanks,