Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

[Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>]

On 10/06/11 18:56, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:55:49 +0900
> Paul Mundt<lethal@linux-sh.org>  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly.
>>>
>> Is this sort of churn really necessary?
> Yes - stale email addresses cause all sorts of problems, particularly if
> in the future the address is re-used in the company. It also causes
> confusion over who owns and maintains stuff because it's never obvious
> whether the resolution of an unknown address is
>
> A.	'user has moved on, follow the user'
>
> B.	'user has moved on, company probably has someone else assigned
> 	 to it'

Okay, so there seem to be a number of different opinions on this. I 
would really like some solution for this so it can go into 3.0. The 
options I see are:

a) My original patch
b) My original patch, but delete email address in .[ch] files rather 
than change it
c) Entry in .mailmap (will this work for 3.0?)
d) Add MAINTAINERS entries for each of the files which have my email 
address in them
e) Some combination of the above

Is there a preferred option? Who (Linus?) do I need to Cc to get this 
included for 3.0?

Thanks,
~Ryan