[PATCH v2] staging: comedi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/LICENSE

Matthew Giassa matthew at giassa.net
Wed Nov 22 07:04:27 UTC 2017


* Ian Abbott <abbotti at 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 at 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 at 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.
>
>-- 
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-- 

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

Cheers!


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