Re: [PATCH v2]net:8021q:vlan.c Fix pr_info to just give the vlanfullname and version.

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 01:54:46 EST


On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 07:45 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 23 mai 2011 Ã 22:40 -0700, Justin P. Mattock a Ãcrit :
> > The below patch removes vlan_buggyright and vlan_copyright from vlan_proto_init,
> > so that it prints out just the fullname of vlan and the version number.
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> > diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan.c b/net/8021q/vlan.c
> > - pr_info("%s v%s %s\n", vlan_fullname, vlan_version, vlan_copyright);
> > - pr_info("All bugs added by %s\n", vlan_buggyright);
> > + pr_info("%s v%s\n", vlan_fullname, vlan_version);
> >
> > err = register_pernet_subsys(&vlan_net_ops);
> > if (err < 0)
> This reminds me a discussion with Harald Welte in netfilter workshop
> 2010.
> Sometime these strings help lot guys working to fight GPL violations.

How so?


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