Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Rene Herman
2007-04-04T18:02:55Z

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...

Rene.