Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:19:58 +0100 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses |
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> I am curious, what's the point?
Email addresses are for contacting people.
> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses > were at that point.
For historical purposes, you can always use historical kernels.
> It's not MAINTAINERS. If people want to contact someone, go find the latest address there.
It's also MODULE_AUTHOR() and printk() which are far more user-visible than MAINTAINERS.
cu Adrian
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