MODULE_MAINTAINER

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>]

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Hi Rusty.

Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR?

Often a module grows multiple authors over time, but initial authors 
aren't around (or too interested) anymore. And sometimes, if someone 
maintaining a driver is just doing minor peripheral updates to keep it 
compiling, the maintainer might not even _be_ an author really...

Rene.



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diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 10f771a..c06f76c 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ #define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_
 /* Author, ideally of form NAME <EMAIL>[, NAME <EMAIL>]*[ and NAME <EMAIL>] */
 #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author)
   
+/* Maintainer, ideally of form NAME <EMAIL> */
+#define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_maintainer) MODULE_INFO(maintainer, _maintainer)
+
 /* What your module does. */
 #define MODULE_DESCRIPTION(_description) MODULE_INFO(description, _description)