From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753908AbXDDTNE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:13:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753916AbXDDTNE (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:13:04 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:42974 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753908AbXDDTNA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:13:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:12:59 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Rene Herman Cc: Takashi Iwai , Alan Cox , Marcel Holtmann , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER Message-ID: <20070404191258.GR27660@stusta.de> References: <46138B4C.2050409@gmail.com> <20070404123311.GA18552@infradead.org> <1175698135.5815.447.camel@violet> <20070404150231.GE27660@stusta.de> <4613C963.6070409@gmail.com> <20070404170016.453d26f1@the-village.bc.nu> <4613D492.2070404@gmail.com> <20070404174839.GQ27660@stusta.de> <4613E7FB.20601@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4613E7FB.20601@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 08:01:31PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04/04/2007 07:48 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:00:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > >>But in general, it would be nice to have an easy way to find a > >>maintainer (not author) from a module binary, and I agree > >>MODULE_MAINTAINER can work well for such a purpose. It's no mandatory > >>field, but could be some help. > > > >Yes, it would be nice. > > > >But would this information always be kept up-to-date for the whole tree? > >I don't see this happen. > > I believe it would largely stay up to date yes. The tag wouldn't be > mandatory and adding oneself as a MODULE_MAINTAINER would specifically > be saying "yes, I want to look after this thing". If someone then no > longer wants to, getting rid of the tag is a matter of deleting one > line. I wouldn't be worse than MAINTAINERS, and being inline, I expect > it to be better... - often module maintainers disappear suddenly or slowly without any clear statement that maintainership ended - most drivers are not maintained on a per-driver but on a per-subsystem basis Consider that we don't even manage to keep MAINTAINERS correct, and consider that we are talking about more than 2800 modules. Realistically, users should report problems with vendor kernels to the vendor and problems with ftp.kernel.org kernels to either linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla, and forwarding issues to the responsible people (if any) should be done there [1]. > Rene. cu Adrian [1] Andrew is doing this -- "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