Re: [PATCH v5 3/8] pinctrl: cygnus: add initial IOMUX driver support

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>[...]
>> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>");
>> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom Cygnus IOMUX driver");
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>
> These three macros will be preprocessed away. (And I guess you could
> also drop the linux/module.h include, but I haven't actually tested that
> guess.)

I think you're right. Or I fear you're right.

But this problem is present in so many drivers that a generic
fixup needs to be done with a script and across an entire subsystem
at once, and besides I'm not sure of these macros disturb so much.

They are documentation in a sense, albeit a kind of documentation
we used before we had git to record the actual authors of the
code.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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