The patch titled module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was module-preferred-way-to-use-module_author.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/module.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/module.h~module-preferred-way-to-use-module_author include/linux/module.h --- a/include/linux/module.h~module-preferred-way-to-use-module_author +++ a/include/linux/module.h @@ -129,7 +129,10 @@ 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. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html