Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver
Date	2015-12-09 03:20 +0100
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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:44:38 -0600

> On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 14:18 -0600, Andy Fleming wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:19 AM,  <igal.liberman@freescale.com> wrote:
>> > From: Igal Liberman <igal.liberman@freescale.com>
>> > 
>> > This patch adds the Ethernet MAC driver supporting the three
>> > different types of MACs: dTSEC, tGEC and mEMAC.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Igal Liberman <igal.liberman@freescale.com>
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > +
>> > +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
>> > +
>> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>");
>> 
>> I imagine this email address doesn't exist anymore, or won't soon.
>> This is also an issue in the ethernet driver (with my old address).
>> I'm not sure what the right approach is, but we shouldn't be putting
>> obsolete email addresses in the kernel.
> 
> I don't think a MODULE_AUTHOR tag makes sense for drivers like this that had a
> lot of people work on them.  git history is better for giving credit in such
> cases.

Agreed.
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Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver Andy Fleming <afleming@gmail.com> - 2015-12-08 21:20 +0100
  Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> - 2015-12-08 23:50 +0100
    Re: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-12-09 03:20 +0100
      RE: [v9, 6/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan MAC driver Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@freescale.com> - 2015-12-09 11:20 +0100

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