In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
file will have been modified by a large number of different
contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
record of authorship.
With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to find the
author of a particular bit of code.
This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
a rule to prevent them reappearing.
The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
their respective copyright statement.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Right-aligning backslashes when defining macros or using complex
commands in Makefiles looks cute, but as soon as any changes is
required to the code you end up with either distractingly broken
alignment or unnecessarily big diffs where most of the changes
are just pushing all backslashes a few characters to one side.
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Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
These had been declared in conf/device_conf.h, but then used in
util/virnetdev.c, meaning that we had to #include conf/device_conf.h
in virnetdev.c (which we have for a long time said shouldn't be done.
This caused a bigger problem when I tried to #include util/virnetdev.h
in a file in src/conf (which is allowed) - for some reason the
"device_conf.h: File not found" error.
The solution is to move the data types and functions used in util
sources from conf to util. Some names were adjusted during the move
("virInterface" --> "virNetDevIf", and "VIR_INTERFACE" -->
"VIR_NETDEV_IF")
