From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932780AbVJ3Bzg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:55:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932781AbVJ3Bzg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:55:36 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:19146 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932780AbVJ3Bzf (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:55:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:55:33 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Multiple MODULE_AUTHOR statements Message-Id: <20051029185533.76f53024.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1130590873.5396.2.camel@blade> References: <1130590873.5396.2.camel@blade> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:01:13 +0200 Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi guys, > > I saw some people adding multiple MODULE_AUTHOR statements to their > drivers if they wanna mention more than one author. I normally used a > comma separated list. Is it valid to use multiple statements? If yes, > then I will change my drivers to use the same approach. It works. I.e., modinfo will list multiple MODULE_AUTHOR entries. MODULE_AUTHOR() just creates a special data section, nothing magic about it. Several are allowed (in general). However, include/linux/module.h says: /* Author, ideally of form NAME [, NAME ]*[ and NAME ] */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) so someone thought that they should all be listed together (in one entry). --- ~Randy