Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762339AbXEKAxk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:53:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758502AbXEKAxc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:53:32 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:8204 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758363AbXEKAxa (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:53:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:content-type; b=LkUswL6hoXqFn0xFSSyNN8y2cKwR+nYtA2ltr2HMGPgNzfvQFBTEsdYXGYjGj5jj1prC8owgfBaSmxJsmb4M5keMe9oQF0/GW6qtoyHGfSFndqnaioRYGwDMsPq6Qm0JnGP0TyRyNJgBaGbeUsnbadO0ArEe/OtJ2M3414L3/Kc= Message-ID: <4643BDF2.9030105@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 02:50:58 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: bunk@stusta.de, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rpjday@mindspring.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, marcel@holtmann.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090802000908010401040109" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2416 Lines: 66 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090802000908010401040109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Rusty. Following up the recent MODULE_MAINTAINER discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/170 that concluded with MODULE_MAINTAINER not being a good idea, here's a small patch that just deletes the advice of including an email address in the MODULE_AUTHOR tag as suggested (and not objected to) at the end of it. The email address is the problem I was trying to fix; with multiple current and non-current authors and maintainers who might not even be authors the address(es) available from the tag confuse the issue of whom to contact. It's moreover also information that easily outdated. A bit more than half of the tags in the tree don't include an email address already and I'll submit patches removing more... Rene. --------------090802000908010401040109 Content-Type: text/plain; name="module_author.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="module_author.diff" commit 3b4fa382d5a6a3d9afdcb5a9232d63c47391fb30 Author: Rene Herman Date: Fri May 11 02:24:35 2007 +0200 module_author: don't advice putting in an email address It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver contact which is a problem especially for modules with multiple current and non-current authors as well as for modules with a maintainer who may not even be a module author. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 792d483..e6e0f86 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module; */ #define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license) -/* Author, ideally of form NAME [, NAME ]*[ and NAME ] */ +/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) /* What your module does. */ --------------090802000908010401040109-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/