linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address

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Message-ID: <4644D72C.9000401@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 22:50:52 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, bunk@...sta.de,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rpjday@...dspring.com, marcel@...tmann.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address

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.

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