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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Christian Kurz <shorty@getuid.de>
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Subject: Re: modules missing author name and/or description
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Christian Kurz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just played with lsmod and modinfo and noticed that the following
> modules which I use either lack one or both of the information I
> mentioned in the description. The following modules lack the name of the
> author:
 
[snip the list]

Quite a few modules don't _have_ a single author.  MODULE_AUTHOR is
optional and very dubious at that - especially since we already have
a common way to put attributions in there; just look at the comments
in the beginning of almost any file in the tree.

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