On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No need to quote the whole message if you reply only to a bit of it.
>
>> > module_init(at24_init);
>> >
>> > static void __exit at24_exit(void)
>> > {
>> > i2c_del_driver(&at24_driver);
>> > }
>> > module_exit(at24_exit);
>>
>> Couldn't you use module_i2c_driver() instead of this?
>
> He didn't write that code. It doesn't have a + at the beginning. He used
> the whole driver as context, which is highly unusual. A context of 3
> lines is usually good enough.
Right. I will send a patch addressing that separately.
>> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for most I2C EEPROMs");
>> > MODULE_AUTHOR("David Brownell and Wolfram Sang");
>>
>> I would personally put your name in here if I were you, otherwise
>> David and Wolfram might get contacted by some people instead of you
>> (at least based on this).
>
> See above. He changed only 10 lines. Not enough for copyright IMO.
Well, it is not the Copyrights section, or you are saying the same
people should go to MODULE_AUTHOR as in the Copyrights section, even
if it is potentially several names? I thought this would be the name
of the person who put the file together even if from existing sources.
>> PS.: Fixing the broken i2c mailing list typo, and updating Wolfram's
>> address from the broken (obsolete?) version.
>
> It came through to the i2c list? What was wrong?
Yes, it did, _after_ fixing the typo in the mailing list address.
Check the original mailing list address typed for details.
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