Re: [PATCH] module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR

[Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:

> For the longest time now we've been using multiple
> MODULE_AUTHOR() statements when a module has more
> than one author, but the comment here disagrees.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
>  include/linux/module.h |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/module.h	2009-08-28 11:12:34.000000000 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/include/linux/module.h	2009-08-28 11:13:52.000000000 +0200
> @@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
>   */
>  #define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license)
>  
> -/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */
> +/*
> + * Author(s), use "Name <email>" or just "Name", for multiple
> + * authors use multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements/lines.
> + */
>  #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author)
>    
>  /* What your module does. */

Applied, thanks Johannes.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs