From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7360C432C0 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69C6223D8 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727395AbfKSVM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:12:26 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0069.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.69]:48622 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726892AbfKSVM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:12:26 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30B3180A5AED; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:12:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: scene39_893a14c56c12e X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2870 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.135.224]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf09.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1e9719feb8c650ea90dec41850fe9058eef59862.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses From: Joe Perches To: Robert Richter Cc: Arnd Bergmann , arm soc , Jan Glauber , Sunil Kovvuri Goutham , George Cherian , Ganapatrao Prabhakerrao Kulkarni , Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , "soc@kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:12:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20191119202328.cqfzf5a4svn23h5a@rric.localdomain> References: <20191119165549.14570-1-rrichter@marvell.com> <20191119165549.14570-4-rrichter@marvell.com> <64ace55545c028bc39b08370074aafd32e8fc5f5.camel@perches.com> <20191119185012.2fekd6f5gbpflpqe@rric.localdomain> <20191119202328.cqfzf5a4svn23h5a@rric.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-usb.c:551:MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney "); > > 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.