linux-kernel - Re: MODULE

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:48:39 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	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 07:00:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:38:42 +0200,
> Rene Herman wrote:
> > 
> > Other cases-in-point; I've lately been rummaging through sound/isa a 
> > bit. Nothing much copyrightable again but especially in those situations 
> > where (some of the) original authors are no longer active, I do again 
> > want people to contact me about them if needed. And all the "which one 
> > of the three people listed here is maintaining this" is yet another.
> 
> Practically, the information can go through subsystem maintainers to
> specific person (you) in such a case, as the tree is still more or
> less maintained by subsystem maintainers.
> 
> But in general, it would be nice to have an easy way to find a
> maintainer (not author) from a module binary, and I agree
> MODULE_MAINTAINER can work well for such a purpose.  It's no mandatory
> field, but could be some help.

Yes, it would be nice.

But would this information always be kept up-to-date for the whole tree?
I don't see this happen.

> Takashi

cu
Adrian

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