From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992994AbXDDQiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:38:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992986AbXDDQiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:38:09 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:42784 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992994AbXDDQiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:38:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:38:07 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Stefan Richter Cc: Rene Herman , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER Message-ID: <20070404163807.GO27660@stusta.de> References: <46138B4C.2050409@gmail.com> <20070404123311.GA18552@infradead.org> <4613A1F1.2080007@gmail.com> <20070404145726.GD27660@stusta.de> <4613D342.3040501@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4613D342.3040501@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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 06:33:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:02:41PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > >> 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. > > Generelly it has to be kept in mind that there are different contacts > for different purposes: > - usage problems --> get in touch with the _support_ > - bug reports --> get in touch with _maintainers_ - bug reports against vendor kernels -> get in touch with the _vendor_ (the vendor might ship a heavily patched driver in an ancient kernel) > - development --> get in touch with maintainers/ kernel hackers/ > copyright holders... > > The Amiga keyboard had a [Help] key, but this is not how it works. > Stefan Richter 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