12 May
2007
12 May
'07
7:01 p.m.
On 05/11/2007 11:12 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
I seem unlikely to convince him but I believe it's upto specific subsystems whether or not they'll take patches removing the email adresses from the tag, ie, in the case of ALSA upto you and Jaroslav.
For what it's worth, Linus merged the patch removing the advice to include an email address in the MODULE_AUTHOR comment:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=...
He was aware of Alan's objection. Removing existing ones is ofcourse not quite the same as not introducing new ones though so ofcourse still up to you. I'm still signing off on it...
Rene.