Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 02:50:58 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address |
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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 It's moreover also information that easily outdated.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.
commit 3b4fa382d5a6a3d9afdcb5a9232d63c47391fb30 Author: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> 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It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver contact which is a problem especially for modules with multiple current and non-current authors as well as for modules with a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 <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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 <EMAIL>[, NAME <EMAIL>]*[ and NAME <EMAIL>] */ +/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) /* What your module does. */ | |