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 <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Luciano Coelho <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
rtvt123 · Sep 24, 2009 · 1d7015c · 1d7015c
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diff --git 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. */