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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-09-25 08:32:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-09-24 17:02:58 +0200 |
| commit | 1d7015caa082d465faeae5d6fd1be077ee6dfa87 (patch) | |
| tree | db04698fc032f1a480c12e293558f87643c1533d /include | |
| parent | param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator (diff) | |
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module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR()
statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here
disagrees.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/module.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index aca980365956..482efc865acf 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ extern struct module __this_module; */ #define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license) -/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */ +/* + * Author(s), use "Name <email>" or just "Name", for multiple + * authors use multiple MODULE_AUTHOR() statements/lines. + */ #define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author) /* What your module does. */ |