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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:02:41 +0200
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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.