From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, arm soc <arm@kernel.org>,
Jan Glauber <jglauber@marvell.com>,
Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
George Cherian <gcherian@marvell.com>,
Ganapatrao Prabhakerrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@marvell.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"soc@kernel.org" <soc@kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:12:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e9719feb8c650ea90dec41850fe9058eef59862.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119202328.cqfzf5a4svn23h5a@rric.localdomain>
On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 20:23 +0000, Robert Richter wrote:
> Joe,
>
> thanks for your review.
>
> On 19.11.19 11:56:53, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Maybe make that change globally in all the files other
> > than MAINTAINERS as well eventually.
> >
> > arch/arm64/mm/numa.c:6: * Author: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@cavium.com>
> > arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-usb.c:551:MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>");
> > arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-coremask.h:6: * Copyright (c) 2016 Cavium Inc. (support@cavium.com).
>
> [...]
>
> This is a bit past the scope of this patch.
Yup, completely agree, as it seems I understated with "eventually".
> I will leave that change to the driver's maintainers.
Fine by me. btw: There's also entries for @caviumnetworks.com
so those might change one day too.
> I also think that authorship does not
> change even if the author's email address changed or vanished later. I
> am not sure on the general handling of MODULE_AUTHOR(), should that
> always contain a valid email address? Seems not the case. I don't
> think somebody actually sends an email to the author, it is more to
> better identify the author.
Changelog identifies the author, MODULE_AUTHOR is actually
available via modinfo -a, which shows email if entered,
but that may also be rarely used in practice.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-19 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20191119165549.14570-1-rrichter@marvell.com>
2019-11-19 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: update Cavium ThunderX drivers Robert Richter
2019-11-19 19:16 ` Robert Richter
2019-11-19 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Update " Robert Richter
2019-11-19 17:02 ` Baruch Siach
2019-11-19 18:47 ` Robert Richter
2019-11-19 16:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses Robert Richter
2019-11-19 17:14 ` Joe Perches
2019-11-19 18:50 ` Robert Richter
2019-11-19 19:56 ` Joe Perches
2019-11-19 20:23 ` Robert Richter
2019-11-19 21:12 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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