This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_license.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:01:49 +0900 Subject: gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE
From: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
commit 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 upstream.
The comment block of this file indicates GPL-2.0 "only", while the MODULE_LICENSE is GPL-2.0 "or later", as include/linux/module.h describes as follows:
"GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later] "GPL v2" [GNU Public License v2]
I am the author of this driver, and my intention is GPL-2.0 "only".
Fixes: dbe776c2ca54 ("gpio: uniphier: add UniPhier GPIO controller driver") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c @@ -505,4 +505,4 @@ module_platform_driver(uniphier_gpio_dri
MODULE_AUTHOR("Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("UniPhier GPIO driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@socionext.com are
queue-4.15/gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_license.patch