lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
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/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ