Re: [2.6 patch] update Dag Brattli's email address

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:52:15PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:40:46PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch updates the email address of Dag Brattli in kernel 2.6 to
> > his current address.
> 
> >  drivers/net/irda/actisys-sir.c        |    4 ++--
> [ ... 
> >  CREDITS                               |    6 +-----
> >  96 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-)
> 
> This patch is huge.
> 
> Do we really need email addresses in all these files?  How about we
> remove them and put it in ONE place instead so if it needs to be
> updated again we don't need to touch ~96 files?
> 
> Surely this makes sense in general too?

I have no strong opinions on this - in most places a simple removal of 
his email address might do as well.

But at least the CREDITS file and the 17 files where the address is 
listed in MODULE_AUTHOR need the correct address.

cu
Adrian

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