On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 14:18 -0600, Andy Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:19 AM, <igal.liber...@freescale.com> wrote:
> > From: Igal Liberman <igal.liber...@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.liber...@freescale.com>
>
> [...]
>
> > +
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> > +
> > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Emil Medve <emilian.me...@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.
-Scott
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