linux-kernel - Re: Add missing module license tag to vring helpers.

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Message-ID: <20130506134123.GA8092@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 May 2013 09:41:23 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Add missing module license tag to vring helpers.

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:06:23PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
 > Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> writes:
 > > [  624.286653] vringh: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
 > >
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > 
 > Thanks!  This is exactly right.
 > 
 > But note that the default license tag for otherwise-unlabelled modules
 > would be "GPLv2".  "GPL" means v2 or later (which is what I want, but
 > it's not the kernel default).

It would be good if we could somehow catch missing tags at build-time
rather than have to run around fixing them after they get merged.

	Dave

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