Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:02:41PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
>> Given modules with multiple authors, current and non-current, I believe 
>> having "modinfo -m" tell the user whom to contact is an avantage.
> 
> Much bigger problems are:
> - Who will maintain this information properly?
> - What about modules that are maintained implicitely by the subsystem
>   maintainer?
> 
> And often a user can't be expected to locate the source of a problem, or 
> it might not be in a driver but in a subsystem.
> 
> For vendor kernels, the user should contact the vendor.
> For ftp.kernel.org kernels, I don't see any better solution than telling 
> people to report problems to linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla and 
> routing them further from here.

Generelly it has to be kept in mind that there are different contacts
for different purposes:
  - usage problems --> get in touch with the _support_
  - bug reports --> get in touch with _maintainers_
  - development --> get in touch with maintainers/ kernel hackers/
    copyright holders...

The Amiga keyboard had a [Help] key, but this is not how it works.
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Stefan Richter
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