[PATCH] module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR

[Johannes Berg]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/module.h |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- wireless-testing.orig/include/linux/module.h	2009-08-28 11:12:34.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/include/linux/module.h	2009-08-28 11:13:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ 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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