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Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Hi Christoph,

> > 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.

I agree. The actual author information belong into the files copyright
header. The MODULE_AUTHOR should only show the current maintainer and
its email address. However this might need some cleanup. Maybe it is
time that we sync the MAINTAINERS file with the MODULE_AUTHOR tag.

Regards

Marcel