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.
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 <EMAIL>[, NAME <EMAIL>]*[ and NAME <EMAIL>] */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) +/* Maintainer, ideally of form NAME <EMAIL> */ +#define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_maintainer) MODULE_INFO(maintainer, _maintainer) + /* What your module does. */ #define MODULE_DESCRIPTION(_description) MODULE_INFO(description, _description)
