module_author: don't advise putting in an email address
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It's information that's easily outdated and easily mistaken for a driver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>
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 792d483..e6e0f86 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
*/
#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. */