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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-09-25 00:32:58 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-09-25 00:32:58 +0930
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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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index aca9803..482efc8 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. */
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