From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Cc: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:19:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201061958.GL11084@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e401c7150e$061da500$6721100a@nuitysystems.com>
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> I am curious, what's the point?
Email addresses are for contacting people.
> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses
> were at that point.
For historical purposes, you can always use historical kernels.
> It's not MAINTAINERS. If people want to contact someone, go find the latest address there.
It's also MODULE_AUTHOR() and printk() which are far more user-visible
than MAINTAINERS.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 5:51 [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses Adrian Bunk
2006-12-01 6:00 ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01 6:19 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-12-01 6:38 ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01 9:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 9:21 ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01 9:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 10:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-02 21:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-02 21:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-02 21:42 ` Alan
2006-12-02 22:07 ` grundig
2006-12-02 22:02 ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01 20:33 ` Stephen Pollei
2006-12-01 21:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-02 21:33 ` Tigran Aivazian
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