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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