diff --git a/src/rustdoc/attr_pass.rs b/src/rustdoc/attr_pass.rs
index 10fa5022a7a6..40953f7aec7f 100644
--- a/src/rustdoc/attr_pass.rs
+++ b/src/rustdoc/attr_pass.rs
@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ fn fold_crate(
 
     ~{
         topmod: ~{
-            name: option::from_maybe(doc.topmod.name, attrs.name),
-            mods: doc.topmod.mods,
-            fns: doc.topmod.fns
+            name: option::from_maybe(doc.topmod.name, attrs.name)
+            with *doc.topmod
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/rustdoc/doc.rs b/src/rustdoc/doc.rs
index 11a6702a7a6c..c601cbfe3655 100644
--- a/src/rustdoc/doc.rs
+++ b/src/rustdoc/doc.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ type cratedoc = ~{
 
 type moddoc = ~{
     name: str,
+    brief: option<str>,
+    desc: option<str>,
     mods: modlist,
     fns: fnlist
 };
diff --git a/src/rustdoc/extract.rs b/src/rustdoc/extract.rs
index 559c2fc47ab7..3411432ce226 100644
--- a/src/rustdoc/extract.rs
+++ b/src/rustdoc/extract.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ fn moddoc_from_mod(
 ) -> doc::moddoc {
     ~{
         name: name,
+        brief: none,
+        desc: none,
         mods: doc::modlist(
             vec::filter_map(module.items) {|item|
                 alt item.node {
diff --git a/src/rustdoc/fold.rs b/src/rustdoc/fold.rs
index 58b0724b29d5..da6a4d35c3e9 100644
--- a/src/rustdoc/fold.rs
+++ b/src/rustdoc/fold.rs
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ fn default_seq_fold_mod<T>(
     doc: doc::moddoc
 ) -> doc::moddoc {
     ~{
-        name: doc.name,
         mods: fold.fold_modlist(fold, doc.mods),
         fns: fold.fold_fnlist(fold, doc.fns)
+        with *doc
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/rustdoc/rustdoc.rs b/src/rustdoc/rustdoc.rs
index 2abb6b4718bc..ba58c4909023 100755
--- a/src/rustdoc/rustdoc.rs
+++ b/src/rustdoc/rustdoc.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ fn test_run_passes() {
         ~{
             topmod: ~{
                 name: doc.topmod.name + "two",
+                brief: none,
+                desc: none,
                 mods: doc::modlist([]),
                 fns: doc::fnlist([])
             }
@@ -39,6 +41,8 @@ fn test_run_passes() {
         ~{
             topmod: ~{
                 name: doc.topmod.name + "three",
+                brief: none,
+                desc: none,
                 mods: doc::modlist([]),
                 fns: doc::fnlist([])
             }