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Message-ID: <1426669895.2649.7.camel@tiscali.nl>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:11:35 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	GTA04 owners <gta04-owner@...delico.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] TTY: add support for tty_slave devices.

Just two nits to look into once you get to fix up all the smaller
issues.

NeilBrown schreef op wo 18-03-2015 om 16:58 [+1100]:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/tty/slave/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +menuconfig TTY_SLAVE
> +	tristate "TTY slave devices"
> +	depends on OF
> +	help
> +	  Devices which attach via a uart, but need extra
> +	  driver support for power management etc.
> +

This blank line makes "git am" whine: "new blank line at EOF".

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/tty/slave/tty_slave_core.c

[...]

This file doesn't have a MODULE_LICENSE() macro. So I think that, if
this driver is built as a module and loaded, kernel/module.c will set
its license to "unspecified" and taint the kernel.


Paul Bolle

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