From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:46:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177371993.30071.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704230748270.25463@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:33 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > > On 04/04/2007 06:38 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
> > >
> > > Rusty?
> >
> > Valid points have been made on both sides. I suggest:
> >
> > #define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_maintainer) \
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("(Maintained by) "_maintainer)
>
> why bring MODULE_AUTHOR into it? just define it in terms of
> MODULE_INFO:
Because author is an established field. People might well search for
it. This is fairly clear, and assuming that the maintainer has actually
done any maintenance, they're an author too.
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 23:50 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 ` 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 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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