Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04T17:48:41Z

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:00:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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 where (some of the) original authors are no longer active, I do again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.

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.

> Takashi

cu
Adrian

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