On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Oleg Verych wrote: > On 2006-11-17, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > [] > >> USB Storage: this patch adds support for Sony Ericsson P990i > > > > This patch has been already merged 4 (!) times - I have submitted a patch > > to kill 3 useless copies of this entry. And now you try to add more... > > Some script has gone mad? > > Yea! Even with crappy e-mail address.... IMO comments are for > documenting code, all credits now are stored in git logs. See today's > message from Linus about this.
Those email addresse in unusual_devs.h are _not_ credits. (The credit belongs to the person who writes and submits the patch, not the person who owns the hardware and reports the problem.) Their purpose is to allow the maintainers to get back in touch with the original reporter when updates to the driver may have rendered the entry unnecessary. Otherwise we have no way to know when it is safe to remove an obsolete entry. > I wish some day all this static useless id-ification will went to > userspace. I do too. But there are difficulties with doing it. Just as one example, consider trying to boot from a USB pendrive. At that point there _is_ no userspace available to provide the blacklist entries! Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
