Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers/pci: make host/pci-rcar-gen2.c explicitly non-modular

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Dec 13 2015 - 15:37:14 EST


On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 13:15 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: [PATCH 05/10] drivers/pci: make host/pci-rcar-gen2.c explicitly
> non-modular] On 13/12/2015 (Sun 11:59) Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > CC MODULE_AUTHOR
>
> Thanks, I just assumed get-maintainer.pl would have automatically
> collected that up with the other names it emits.  Apparently not.
>
> Joe: is there a reason it doesn't use the module author field?

Because it's frequently out-of-date and the
MAINTAINERS entry is generally enough.

If you want to add it, there's an option for it
--file-emails

> Paul

cheers, Joe

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