From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:06:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175702769.5815.489.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404170016.453d26f1@the-village.bc.nu>
Hi Alan,
> > Given that people seem to agree that authorship information has no place
> > in the binary, that might actually be best.
>
> Authorship information is very useful in the binary, especially when you
> have to get lawyers involved in explaining things to people. Company
> business and management people understand
>
> "load it into a binary editor, search for Alan Cox, now call your lawyer"
>
> trying to prove a given source is a given binary is much much harder.
>
> > So, MODULE_AUTHOR be gone?
>
> Not if I have anything to do with it. Putting maintainer in is not a bad
> idea but that assumes it gets maintained, the beauty of _AUTHOR is that
> it's generally right and stays that way or approximately so.
removing the MODULE_AUTHOR is a bad idea. I really like to call modinfo
and see who maintains a specific driver.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 16:06 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 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
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 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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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