Re: [PATCH 2/3] atl1c: change author

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 01 mars 2012 à 13:41 +0800, Cloud Ren a écrit :
> The author, jie yang, has left. please use nic-devel@qualcomm.com report bugs to
> us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cloud Ren <cjren@qca.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
> index 6bf387b..815f683 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(atl1c_pci_tbl) = {
>  };
>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, atl1c_pci_tbl);
>  
> -MODULE_AUTHOR("Jie Yang <jie.yang@atheros.com>");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Qualcomm Corporation, <nic-devel@qualcomm.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Atheros 1000M Ethernet Network Driver");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  

Jie Yang, _is_ the original author. Thats a truth.

Why would you want to remove this line, this sounds very bad.

What you probably want is a change in MAINTAINERS file to reflect who
maintains atl1c at this moment and how to reach them by email.

Notes:

- Its also possible to add a new MODULE_AUTHOR() line

- You could remove the obsolete email address and keep Jie Yang name as
in :

MODULE_AUTHOR("Jie Yang");