Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

Rene Herman
2007-04-04T13:03:57Z

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.

Rene.