linux-kernel - Re: MODULE

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:38:07 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:02:41PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> >> Given modules with multiple authors, current and non-current, I believe 
> >> having "modinfo -m" tell the user whom to contact is an avantage.
> > 
> > Much bigger problems are:
> > - Who will maintain this information properly?
> > - What about modules that are maintained implicitely by the subsystem
> >   maintainer?
> > 
> > And often a user can't be expected to locate the source of a problem, or 
> > it might not be in a driver but in a subsystem.
> > 
> > For vendor kernels, the user should contact the vendor.
> > For ftp.kernel.org kernels, I don't see any better solution than telling 
> > people to report problems to linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla and 
> > routing them further from here.
> 
> Generelly it has to be kept in mind that there are different contacts
> for different purposes:
>   - usage problems --> get in touch with the _support_
>   - bug reports --> get in touch with _maintainers_

- bug reports against vendor kernels -> get in touch with the _vendor_
  (the vendor might ship a heavily patched driver in an ancient kernel)

>   - development --> get in touch with maintainers/ kernel hackers/
>     copyright holders...
> 
> The Amiga keyboard had a [Help] key, but this is not how it works.

> Stefan Richter

cu
Adrian

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