linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: configfs: Add configfs support to IIO

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Message-ID: <1427314499.10958.36.camel@x220>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:14:59 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...el.com>
Cc:	jic23@...nel.org, jlbec@...lplan.org, lars@...afoo.de,
	knaack.h@....de, pmeerw@...erw.net, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, octavian.purdila@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: configfs: Add configfs support to IIO

A license nit.

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 19:00 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-configfs.c

> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
> + * the Free Software Foundation.

> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@...el.com>");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Industrial I/O configfs support");

You probably want
    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

here too. Because now, at module load time, the license will default to
"unspecified" which will taint the kernel.


Paul Bolle

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