linux-kernel - Re: Few ideas...

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Date:	Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:11:28 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Few ideas...


On Feb 29 2008 23:48, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>There was a thread about MODULE_MAINTAINER but how about a tag which
>a) would be present in source files, not necessarily one per module
>c) would be machine-parseable
>d) would have _no_ effect on object code (i.e., would be ignored by
>   the compiler completely)?

d: I think it would not bad if it were included in the resulting
object file like MODULE_AUTHOR is.
If anything, MODULE_AUTHOR could be removed, because the original
author(s) are usually listed at the top of the .c file and not
always the ones to talk to when there is a bug (=> the maintainer
is).
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