Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754713Ab1FJDws (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:52:48 -0400 Received: from linux-sh.org ([111.68.239.195]:59452 "EHLO linux-sh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753423Ab1FJDwr (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 23:52:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:51:46 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Ryan Mallon Cc: Joe Perches , 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 Message-ID: <20110610035115.GF26006@linux-sh.org> 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> <4DF1902A.1040305@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF1902A.1040305@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1965 Lines: 38 On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:31:54PM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: > 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? > Not necessarily. You can leave the copyright bits intact but simply update (or strip out) the address from the MODULE_AUTHOR part so people still get the proper data from modinfo and so on. There are many people with non-working email addresses in copyright statements tree-wide, so there's certainly a precedent for it. It's also a motivator for not bothering with inlining the email address in the future, unless it's to avoid ambiguity (ie, a work done on behalf of an employer, who retains all rights). If there are files that you have authored but get_maintainers is groveling the commits and using your old address, you can preempt this by simply adding a MAINTAINERS entry with the appropriate file pattern, too. -- 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/