linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reset: hisilicon: Fix hi6220 module license

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2qLxBNG61BX3g02cEXMg7LVA5ghxbW78n81c0+3ZKkXg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 10:44:05 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
Cc:     Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Chen Feng <puck.chen@...ilicon.com>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: hisilicon: Fix hi6220 module license

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de> wrote:
> The hi6220_reset driver fails to load:
>
>   [   10.423640] hi6220_reset: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>   [   10.423644] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>   [   10.423735] hi6220_reset: Unknown symbol regmap_write (err 0)
>   [   10.423747] hi6220_reset: Unknown symbol devm_kmalloc (err 0)
>   [   10.423759] hi6220_reset: Unknown symbol syscon_node_to_regmap (err 0)
>   [   10.423768] hi6220_reset: Unknown symbol reset_controller_register (err 0)
>   [   10.423784] hi6220_reset: Unknown symbol __platform_driver_register (err 0)
>
> Add a MODULE_LICENSE() to fix this.
>
> Fixes: 70b3590f639f ("reset: hi6220: fix modular build")
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Chen Feng <puck.chen@...ilicon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I wonder why I never ran into this in randconfig testing.