Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:06:56 -0700 | From | Geoff Levand <> | Subject | Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/ps3: Add rtc-ps3 |
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Hi,
On 03/09/2009 11:43 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> wrote: >> On 03/09/2009 07:12 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote: >> > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:26:23 +0100 >> > Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote: >> >> + >> >> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Sony Corporation"); >> > >> > real name, if possible and a contact address >> > here . Just in case I need someone to bother :) >> >> Please look at the MAINTAINERS file, that will give >> the contact for PS3. It is much easier to maintain >> a single place for the contact than many spread >> throughout the kernel sources. > > Having it in MODULE_AUTHOR allow my scripts to automatically > send an email when appropriate. > > MAINTAINERS lists the files with an arbitrary > driver title so that the search must be made by an human and there's > no field that links a person to a specific .c . > > so every time I want to address someone I need to check MODULE_AUTHOR, > the git log and the MAINTAINERS file.
I see. It seems what you want is MODULE_MAINTAINER, as author is the author, who after some time, may not be the maintainer any more.
There was some work by Joe Perches to list the files a maintainer is responsible for into the MAINTAINERS file. I think that would give you what you want, a way to automatically get the maintainer of a file.
Joe, could you let us know the status of that work?
-Geoff
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