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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:29:58 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
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On 04/04/2007 01:26 PM, Rene Herman wrote:

> Can we have a MODULE_MAINTAINER to complement MODULE_AUTHOR?

And here's the accompanying patch to the module-init-tools-3.3-pre1 as 
found on http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/

Rene.

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--- module-init-tools-3.3-pre1/modinfo.c.orig	2007-04-04 12:54:19.000000000 +0200
+++ module-init-tools-3.3-pre1/modinfo.c	2007-04-04 12:59:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@
 static struct option options[] =
 {
 	{"author", 0, 0, 'a'},
+	{"maintainer", 0, 0, 'm'},
 	{"description", 0, 0, 'd'},
 	{"license", 0, 0, 'l'},
 	{"parameters", 0, 0, 'p'},
@@ -347,9 +348,10 @@
 	else
 		abort();
 
-	while ((opt = getopt_long(argc,argv,"adlpVhn0F:",options,NULL)) >= 0){
+	while ((opt = getopt_long(argc,argv,"amdlpVhn0F:",options,NULL)) >= 0){
 		switch (opt) {
 		case 'a': field = "author"; break;
+		case 'm': field = "maintainer"; break;	  
 		case 'd': field = "description"; break;
 		case 'l': field = "license"; break;
 		case 'p': field = "parm"; break;

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