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module_author: don't advise putting in an email address
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module_author: don't advise putting in an email address

It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver
contact which is a problem especially for modules with multiple current and
non-current authors as well as for modules with a maintainer who may not
even be a module author.

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rene Herman authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 11, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
*/
#define MODULE_LICENSE(_license) MODULE_INFO(license, _license)

/* Author, ideally of form NAME <EMAIL>[, NAME <EMAIL>]*[ and NAME <EMAIL>] */
/* Author, ideally of form NAME[, NAME]*[ and NAME] */
#define MODULE_AUTHOR(_author) MODULE_INFO(author, _author)

/* What your module does. */
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