From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992911AbXDDO52 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:57:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992916AbXDDO52 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:57:28 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:42683 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992911AbXDDO51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:57:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:57:26 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Rene Herman Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER Message-ID: <20070404145726.GD27660@stusta.de> References: <46138B4C.2050409@gmail.com> <20070404123311.GA18552@infradead.org> <4613A1F1.2080007@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4613A1F1.2080007@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:02:41PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04/04/2007 02:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:26:04PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > >>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. > > Given modules with multiple authors, current and non-current, I believe > having "modinfo -m" tell the user whom to contact is an avantage. Much bigger problems are: - Who will maintain this information properly? - What about modules that are maintained implicitely by the subsystem maintainer? And often a user can't be expected to locate the source of a problem, or it might not be in a driver but in a subsystem. For vendor kernels, the user should contact the vendor. For ftp.kernel.org kernels, I don't see any better solution than telling people to report problems to linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla and routing them further from here. > Rene. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed