[PATCH] rust: module: remove deprecated author key

Guilherme Giacomo Simoes
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:37:45 -0000

Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com>
wrotes:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 12:12?PM Benno Lossin <lossin at kernel.org>
wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, I guess a checkpatch lint fits better then?
>
> Yeah, that would work.
>
> Probably for the C side too -- from a quick grep I don't see it.
Maybe, after this patch we can make a checkpatch change for check the `authors`
key (and MODULE_AUTHOR for C side), and throw a WARN if the author is a name
(not a url, or "rust for linux") and don't have a email address.

Unless you guys tell me otherwise, I guess this is not so priority.

Thanks,
Guilherme