Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

[Rene Herman]

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.
--- 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;