linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: octeon: Add the license identifier

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Message-ID: <20200723173429.GA2907237@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:34:29 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: octeon: Add the license identifier

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:31:50PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag
> 
> Add a the SPDX-License-Identifier tag on line 1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@...il.com>
> ---
> Other files in this folder have GPL-2.0 license. So this file should
> have the same license which was missing before and checkpatch.pl was
> giving the warning.

Why is this information not up in the changelog area?

And what changeds from v1?  ALways put that below the --- line.

v3?

thanks,

greg k-h