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From: Matthew Giassa <matthew@giassa.net>
To: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: Jesse Chan <jc@linux.com>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: comedi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/LICENSE
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:04:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171122070427.lk7w6kdpao2234rt@darkstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39b27702-cd33-2fbf-d57c-6f30fe7a28b3@mev.co.uk>

* Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> [2017-11-20 10:46:36 +0000]:

>On 20/11/17 10:29, Ian Abbott wrote:
>>On 20/11/17 07:50, Jesse Chan wrote:
>>>This change resolves a new compile-time warning
>>>when built as a loadable module:
>>>
>>>WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in 
>>>drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.o
>>>see include/linux/module.h for more information
>>>
>>>This adds the license as "GPL", which matches the header of the file.
>>>
>>>MODULE_DESCRIPTION is also added.
>>>
>>>Signed-off-by: Jesse Chan <jc@linux.com>
>>>---
>>>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.c | 3 +++
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>
>>>diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.c 
>>>b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.c
>>>index 2d62a8c57332..b61d56367773 100644
>>>--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.c
>>>+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.c
>>>@@ -361,3 +361,6 @@ static struct comedi_driver ni_atmio_driver = {
>>>      .detach        = ni_atmio_detach,
>>>  };
>>>  module_comedi_driver(ni_atmio_driver);
>>>+
>>>+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Comedi low-level driver");
>>>+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>
>>Thanks!  I wonder how I managed to miss out this driver in commit 
>>3c323c01b6bd ("Staging: comedi: Add MODULE_LICENSE and similar to NI 
>>modules")?
>>
>>Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
>
>Despite my above comment, we should probably give precedence to 
>Matthew Giassa's patch for the same issue, since it was sent earlier.
>
>-- 
>-=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=-
>-=(                          Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/  )=-

-- 

Thanks. Also, this one should probably include the MODULE_AUTHOR macro
as well.

Cheers!

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-22  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-20  7:02 [PATCH] " Jesse Chan
2017-11-20  7:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-20  7:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Jesse Chan
2017-11-20 10:29   ` Ian Abbott
2017-11-20 10:46     ` Ian Abbott
2017-11-22  7:04       ` Matthew Giassa [this message]

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