From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031239AbXDZO5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:57:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031242AbXDZO5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:57:54 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:47659 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031239AbXDZO5x (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:57:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4630BD61.2050006@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:55:29 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Andrew Morton , "Robert P. J. Day" , Rusty Russell , Alan Cox , Marcel Holtmann , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER References: <20070404150231.GE27660@stusta.de> <4613C963.6070409@gmail.com> <20070404170016.453d26f1@the-village.bc.nu> <4613D492.2070404@gmail.com> <462C7D74.60003@gmail.com> <1177327476.17026.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <462CA764.5080401@gmail.com> <20070425181856.42fcfeb4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <463081E5.5010306@gmail.com> <20070426135426.GM3468@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070426135426.GM3468@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/26/2007 03:54 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Let me try to summarize the points: > - you think MODULE_AUTHOR without MODULE_MAINTAINER confuses users Yes, and the frustration of composing lengthy emails to bouncing (or worse still, silent) email adresses is severe if you just decided to for once not shrug about it but submit a bugreport. If it happens to an address from MAINTAINERS (and an LKML savvy user) the address can at least be deleted but you can't delete a MODULE_AUTHOR tag. Without something like a MODULE_MAINTAINER I have no way of saying "ignore those MODULE_AUTHORs please, I want the bugreport". > - Alan wants MODULE_AUTHOR to stay for easing showing authorship of code > to people > - I (and others) think MODULE_MAINTAINER wouldn't make sense Had a few Ays as well. But note, since you suggested removing MODULE_AUTHOR I actually agree that made more sense. It's just that iff that can't happen, I feel I need a place to override MODULE_AUTHOR for the use that I'm interested in and which is acting as the contact for a driver. > Is there any good solution for this? > E.g. modinfo could be changed to no longer defaulting to show the author? Tie Alan to his chair and take away his keyboard while we submit patches removing MODULE_AUTHOR? Or just apply a trivial two line, optional, non mandatory, patch introducing a MODULE_MAINTAINER? You pick... :-) Rene.