Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Takashi Iwai
2007-04-04T17:00:48Z

At Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:38:42 +0200,
Rene Herman wrote:
>
> Other cases-in-point; I've lately been rummaging through sound/isa a
> bit. Nothing much copyrightable again but especially in those situations
> where (some of the) original authors are no longer active, I do again
> want people to contact me about them if needed. And all the "which one
> of the three people listed here is maintaining this" is yet another.

Practically, the information can go through subsystem maintainers to
specific person (you) in such a case, as the tree is still more or
less maintained by subsystem maintainers.

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.

Takashi