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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	bunk@stusta.de, randy.dunlap@oracle.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, rpjday@mindspring.com,
	marcel@holtmann.org, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 22:50:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4644D72C.9000401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.98.0705110740420.12363@sigma.j-a-k-j.com>

On 05/11/2007 01:42 PM, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:

> Can't we just subtitle it somehow? Add tags: " (current maintainer)", "
> (original author, inactive)", " (bug and defect reports)", or whatever 
> you like after the names.

Yes, that's close to Rusty's version of the original MODULE_MAINTAINER proposal:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/23/115

If I have the "ignore those other addresses you see listed here please, this 
is the contact address" method this would provide, I don't believe more 
annotations would be needed really.

Rene.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11  0:50 [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address Rene Herman
2007-05-11 10:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 11:42   ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-11 20:50     ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-05-11 21:18     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-11 21:35       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12  7:14         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-12 12:15           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12 12:38             ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-11 14:16   ` Rene Herman
2007-05-11 14:40     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 17:21       ` Rene Herman
2007-05-11 23:23         ` Krzysztof Halasa

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