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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:31:54 +1000 From: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> CC: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andre Renaud <andre@...ewatersys.com>, H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>, Andrew Victor <avictor.za@...il.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>, trivial@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel On 10/06/11 13:24, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:13 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >> On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >>>> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >>>>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly. >>>>> Is this sort of churn really necessary? >>> get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen >>> commit matching on the full name where possible. >> Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email >> address for me? > I believe updating the MAINTAINERS file and > authoring and committing patches that take > your email address out of files works well. If I strip my email address, but leave my name and copyright in the files the patch will have the same amount of churn right? > Some think that it's better to keep current > email addresses in the files. I think it > has to do with European data retention laws. > > Not sure if that applies to you. I basically just want email to arrive at the correct address. I can catch misdirected stuff which gets Cc'ed to a mailing list, but sometimes people send me things off list which will just get lost. ~Ryan -- 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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