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 IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,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>
It turns out that our implementation of the hashing function is
endian-dependent and thus if used on various architectures the testsuite
may have different results. Work this around by mocking virHashCodeGen
to something which does not use bit operations instead of just setting a
deterministic seed.
virHashNew calls virRandomBits to initialize seed for the hashing
function. If a test uses iteration through the hash table to produce
results they may/will be non-deterministic. Extract the mock library
which was used for mac address mapping to be universal.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
