linux-kernel - Re: iio/accel/kxsd9_i2c: no license, taints kernel

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdb_101_guBu2dC5c+avJHFnFSw4fc7Ug7+B8tAuqz=UeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:22:36 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iio/accel/kxsd9_i2c: no license, taints kernel

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/17 10:53, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> [44583.951806] kxsd9_i2c: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>> [44583.951931] kxsd9_i2c: Unknown symbol __devm_regmap_init_i2c (err 0)
>>
>> __devm_regmap_i2c() is EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), so a non-compatible license
>> cannot use it.
>>
>
>
> and iio/adc/qcom-vadc-common.c:
>
> qcom_vadc_common: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

I wrote these, I will send a patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij