From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:02:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404150231.GE27660@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175698135.5815.447.camel@violet>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:48:55PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> > > 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.
>
> I agree. The actual author information belong into the files copyright
> header. The MODULE_AUTHOR should only show the current maintainer and
> its email address. However this might need some cleanup. Maybe it is
> time that we sync the MAINTAINERS file with the MODULE_AUTHOR tag.
Or even remove the MODULE_AUTHOR tag?
Even if you would spend the time for syncing the > 1600 MODULE_AUTHOR
tags today, I don't see this happen on an ongoing basis in the future.
> Regards
>
> Marcel
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 15:02 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 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
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