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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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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 where (some of the) original authors are no longer active, I do again 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.


Takashi