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Hi Mark,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:33:20AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> So, did you queue a patch to fix your email address in
>> drivers/regulator/virtual.c?
>
> No, that's more about giving credit to Wolfson for funding the code I
> guess - it's very rare for anyone to update the author information (and
> becoming more common for people to not put them in the file at all).
> Everyone uses get_maintainers.pl these days, it'll do a reasonable first
> pass at figuring out who's been working on the code and who the
> subsystem maintainers are.

Still, obsolete email address are regularly updated or removed.
You can give credits in the comments. The file already has

Copyright 2008 Wolfson Microelectronics PLC.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds