Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753542Ab1FJDcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:32:05 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:48590 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752466Ab1FJDcB (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:32:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=E3wRSR5+eIERDUqaMEVlpOaIkHKHRiK860ZfzPo6C2EVjjCeJ/VA9Gf4FUa2H16jo4 w55yMYAHTxWwBkBgcNzzRXcY0Hxrsh9lC86Sm6cZz75Cbx15XWlm+tpnRXKgNAJB8Xf1 qD14YTuTPe43C7FnzGCftnlgBTvVHAzogHOwI= Message-ID: <4DF1902A.1040305@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:31:54 +1000 From: Ryan Mallon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andre Renaud , H Hartley Sweeten , Russell King , Nicolas Ferre , Andrew Victor , David Woodhouse , Anton Vorontsov , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH trival/tree-wide] Change Ryan Mallon's email address across the kernel References: <1307661170-9325-1-git-send-email-rmallon@gmail.com> <20110610025532.GE26006@linux-sh.org> <4DF189F2.3040009@gmail.com> <1307675512.20439.2.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4DF18BDC.8010306@gmail.com> <1307676240.20439.9.camel@Joe-Laptop> In-Reply-To: <1307676240.20439.9.camel@Joe-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1534 Lines: 36 On 10/06/11 13:24, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:13 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >> On 10/06/11 13:11, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >>>> On 10/06/11 12:55, Paul Mundt wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:50AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: >>>>>> I no longer work at Bluewater Systems. Update my email address accordingly. >>>>> Is this sort of churn really necessary? >>> get_maintainer uses the name and address in the first seen >>> commit matching on the full name where possible. >> Okay, what is the correct fix then so that people get the right email >> address for me? > I believe updating the MAINTAINERS file and > authoring and committing patches that take > your email address out of files works well. If I strip my email address, but leave my name and copyright in the files the patch will have the same amount of churn right? > Some think that it's better to keep current > email addresses in the files. I think it > has to do with European data retention laws. > > Not sure if that applies to you. I basically just want email to arrive at the correct address. I can catch misdirected stuff which gets Cc'ed to a mailing list, but sometimes people send me things off list which will just get lost. ~Ryan -- 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/