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Message-ID: <m3ejaucz1e.fsf@maximus.localdomain> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:13:49 +0100 From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Few ideas... Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> writes: > So what apart from the parsability of a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag, > what is different from authors engraving their name into a > comment at the start of the .c file? Authors != maintainers. A script could parse the tags and fill Cc: appropriately. > A number of .c files (even those that are not just built-in, but can > also be built as =m) do not have a MODULE_AUTHOR(); and copyright is > even valid when there is no apparent author name. Sure, though it's a bit harder to find who is it exactly. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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