Re: [PATCH v2]net:8021q:vlan.c Fix pr_info to just give the vlanfullname and version.

[Eric Dumazet]

Le lundi 23 mai 2011 Ã 22:40 -0700, Justin P. Mattock a Ãcrit :
> The below patch removes vlan_buggyright and vlan_copyright from vlan_proto_init, 
> so that it prints out just the fullname of vlan and the version number.
> 
> before:
> 
> [   30.438203] 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [   30.441542] All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> after:
> 
> [   31.513910] 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/8021q/vlan.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
> index b2274d1..9df3fcb 100644
> --- a/net/8021q/vlan.c
> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan.c
> @@ -673,8 +673,7 @@ static int __init vlan_proto_init(void)
>  {
>  	int err;
>  
> -	pr_info("%s v%s %s\n", vlan_fullname, vlan_version, vlan_copyright);
> -	pr_info("All bugs added by %s\n", vlan_buggyright);
> +	pr_info("%s v%s\n", vlan_fullname, vlan_version);
>  
>  	err = register_pernet_subsys(&vlan_net_ops);
>  	if (err < 0)

This reminds me a discussion with Harald Welte in netfilter workshop
2010.

Sometime these strings help lot guys working to fight GPL violations.




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