Re: [PATCH v1 07/28] rust: macros: take string literals in `module!`

[Wei Liu]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 05:46:05PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 3:47 PM Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What's the rationale behind allowing UTF-8? Why not stick with ASCII
> > only?
> 
> The reason is that there are already some cases on the C side.
> 
> For authors, there are about 158 non-ASCII in the kernel tree (if I
> grepped correctly), e.g.:
> 
>     MODULE_AUTHOR("漆鹏振 (Qi Pengzhen) <aric.pzqi@xxxxxxxxxxx>");
>     MODULE_AUTHOR("Martin Povišer <povik+lin@xxxxxxxxxxx>");
>     MODULE_AUTHOR("Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@xxxxxxxxxx>");
>     MODULE_AUTHOR("Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> 
> There are also a few descriptions too, e.g.:
> 
>     MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NAND flash driver for OLPC CAFÉ chip");
>     MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NHPoly1305 ε-almost-∆-universal hash function");

Okay. That's fair enough.

Thanks,
Wei.

> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel