linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.16 191/410] Input: mms114

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:41:38 -0700
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "3.8+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>,
        Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 191/410] Input: mms114 - fix license module information

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> 3.16.57-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Not a hard objection, but rather a curiosity: for this to be pulled
into stable what user issue does this fix?

>
> ------------------
>
> From: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
>
> commit 498e7e7ed1fd72c275a682f0903c4a20cc538658 upstream.
>
> The driver has been released with GNU Public License v2 as stated
> in the header, but the module license information has been tagged
> as "GPL" (GNU Public License v2 or later).
>
> Fix the module license information so that it matches the one in
> the header as "GPL v2".
>
> Fixes: 07b8481d4aff ("Input: add MELFAS mms114 touchscreen driver")
> Reported-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c
> @@ -592,4 +592,4 @@ module_i2c_driver(mms114_driver);
>  /* Module information */
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MELFAS mms114 Touchscreen driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>



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Dmitry