On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:02:41PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04/04/2007 02:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:26:04PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > >>Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR? > > > >#define MODULE_MAINTAINER(x) MODULE_AUTHOR(x), please. > >MODULE_AUTHOR really has meant maintainer in practice for ages, and it's > >the only actually relevant for users information we should store. > > Given modules with multiple authors, current and non-current, I believe > having "modinfo -m" tell the user whom to contact is an avantage.
Much bigger problems are: - Who will maintain this information properly? - What about modules that are maintained implicitely by the subsystem maintainer? And often a user can't be expected to locate the source of a problem, or it might not be in a driver but in a subsystem. For vendor kernels, the user should contact the vendor. For ftp.kernel.org kernels, I don't see any better solution than telling people to report problems to linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla and routing them further from here. > Rene. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/