[PATCH] rust: module: remove deprecated author key

Benno Lossin
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:55:55 -0000

On Tue Jun 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM CEST, Guilherme Giacomo Simoes
wrote:
> 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.

Most other authors fields that don't list explicit names use "Rust for
Linux Contributors", so we should probably scan for that instead.

But I think that we should no longer add any author fields using that.
Things with that are from way back in the day (when RfL was still out of
tree) where many people contributed to a single file, hence the use of
that phrase.

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

Yeah this isn't high priority. We can just make this into a
good-first-issue, then someone can eventually pick it up.

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Cheers,
Benno