linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel

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Message-ID: <4DF1902A.1040305@gmail.com>
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

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