On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Paul Bolle [off-list ref] wrote:

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+MODULE_AUTHOR("Ray Jui [off-list ref]");
+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