Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:02:41 +0200 | | From | Rene Herman <> | | Subject | Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER |
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On 04/04/2007 02:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:26:04PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
>> Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR? > > #define MODULE_MAINTAINER(x) MODULE_AUTHOR(x), please. > MODULE_AUTHOR really has meant maintainer in practice for ages, and it's > the only actually relevant for users information we should store.
Given modules with multiple authors, current and non-current, I believe having "modinfo -m" tell the user whom to contact is an avantage.
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