From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992859AbXDDL1X (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:27:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992861AbXDDL1X (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:27:23 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:56435 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992859AbXDDL1W (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:27:22 -0400 Message-ID: <46138B4C.2050409@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:26:04 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Linux Kernel Subject: MODULE_MAINTAINER Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070305020103070403050608" X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070305020103070403050608 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --------------070305020103070403050608 Content-Type: text/plain; name="module_maintainer.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="module_maintainer.diff" 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 [, NAME ]*[ and NAME ] */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) +/* Maintainer, ideally of form NAME */ +#define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_maintainer) MODULE_INFO(maintainer, _maintainer) + /* What your module does. */ #define MODULE_DESCRIPTION(_description) MODULE_INFO(description, _description) --------------070305020103070403050608--