Re: [PATCH 2/2] MAINTAINERS: Switch to Marvell addresses

[Robert Richter]

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 <gkulkarni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-usb.c:551:MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>");
> arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-coremask.h:6: * Copyright (c) 2016  Cavium Inc. (support@xxxxxxxxxx).

[...]

This is a bit past the scope of this patch. I will leave that change
to the driver's maintainers. 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.

Thank you,

-Robert