On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 03:50:25PM +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is no need to #define the license of the driver, just put it in
> > the MODULE_LICENSE() line directly as a text string.
> >
> > This allows tools that check that the module license matches the source
> > code license to work properly, as there is no need to unwind the
> > unneeded dereference, especially when the string is defined in a .h file
> > far away from the .c file it is used in.
> >
> > Cc: Patrik Jakobsson <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Queued for 4.16, it'll pop up in linux-next as soon as -rc1 is tagged.
-Daniel
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