linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses

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Date:   Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:23:36 +0000
From:   Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, arm soc <arm@...nel.org>,
        Jan Glauber <jglauber@...vell.com>,
        Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        "George Cherian" <gcherian@...vell.com>,
        Ganapatrao Prabhakerrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...vell.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "soc@...nel.org" <soc@...nel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses

Joe,

thanks for your review.

On 19.11.19 11:56:53, Joe Perches wrote:
> Maybe make that change globally in all the files other
> than MAINTAINERS as well eventually.
> 
> arch/arm64/mm/numa.c:6: * Author: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...ium.com>
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-usb.c:551:MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>");
> arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-coremask.h:6: * Copyright (c) 2016  Cavium Inc. (support@...ium.com).

[...]

This is a bit past the scope of this patch. I will leave that change
to the driver's maintainers. I also think that authorship does not
change even if the author's email address changed or vanished later. I
am not sure on the general handling of MODULE_AUTHOR(), should that
always contain a valid email address? Seems not the case. I don't
think somebody actually sends an email to the author, it is more to
better identify the author.

Thank you,

-Robert