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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:48:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175698135.5815.447.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404123311.GA18552@infradead.org>

Hi Christoph,

> > Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR?
> 
> #define MODULE_MAINTAINER(x) MODULE_AUTHOR(x), please.
> MODULE_AUTHOR really has meant maintainer in practice for ages, and it's
> the only actually relevant for users information we should store.

I agree. The actual author information belong into the files copyright
header. The MODULE_AUTHOR should only show the current maintainer and
its email address. However this might need some cleanup. Maybe it is
time that we sync the MAINTAINERS file with the MODULE_AUTHOR tag.

Regards

Marcel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 11:26 MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 11:29 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 12:33 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-04 13:02   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 14:57     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:33       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 16:38         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:45           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 14:48   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2007-04-04 15:02     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 15:50       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 16:00         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-04 16:06           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 16:38           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 17:00             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Takashi Iwai
2007-04-04 17:48               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 18:01                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 19:12                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-05  0:08                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-23  9:33             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-23 11:24               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-23 11:52                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:00                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:32                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26  1:18                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 10:03                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-26 10:41                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 13:54                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 14:55                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 16:00                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-26 16:45                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 15:41                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 15:52                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 16:44                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 17:12                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 19:37                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 19:43                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 20:02                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 20:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 21:51                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:01                                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 22:07                                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:28                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 20:11                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 22:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Gene Heskett
2007-04-27  9:06                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-26 22:03                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-27 21:06                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-28 21:03                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-23 23:46                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell

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