From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752225AbXDDRsl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:48:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752251AbXDDRsk (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:48:40 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:42874 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226AbXDDRsj (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:48:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:48:39 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Rene Herman , Alan Cox , Marcel Holtmann , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER Message-ID: <20070404174839.GQ27660@stusta.de> References: <46138B4C.2050409@gmail.com> <20070404123311.GA18552@infradead.org> <1175698135.5815.447.camel@violet> <20070404150231.GE27660@stusta.de> <4613C963.6070409@gmail.com> <20070404170016.453d26f1@the-village.bc.nu> <4613D492.2070404@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:00:18PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:38:42 +0200, > Rene Herman wrote: > > > > Other cases-in-point; I've lately been rummaging through sound/isa a > > bit. Nothing much copyrightable again but especially in those situations > > where (some of the) original authors are no longer active, I do again > > want people to contact me about them if needed. And all the "which one > > of the three people listed here is maintaining this" is yet another. > > Practically, the information can go through subsystem maintainers to > specific person (you) in such a case, as the tree is still more or > less maintained by subsystem maintainers. > > But in general, it would be nice to have an easy way to find a > maintainer (not author) from a module binary, and I agree > MODULE_MAINTAINER can work well for such a purpose. It's no mandatory > field, but could be some help. Yes, it would be nice. But would this information always be kept up-to-date for the whole tree? I don't see this happen. > Takashi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed