Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:33 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> > On 04/04/2007 06:38 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
> >
> > Rusty?
>
> Valid points have been made on both sides.  I suggest:
>
> #define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_maintainer) \
> 	MODULE_AUTHOR("(Maintained by) "_maintainer)

why bring MODULE_AUTHOR into it?  just define it in terms of
MODULE_INFO:

#define MODULE_MAINTAINER(_m) MODULE_INFO(_m, "(Maintained by)"  \
	maintainer)

technically, the maintainer is not the same as the author so why
confuse the issue with an extra unnecessary macro expansion?

rday
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