On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 12:50:01PM -0800, Vinay Sawal wrote: >> Fixed all issues reported by checkpatch script on this file. >> >> Signed-off-by: Vinay Sawal <vinaysawal@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmnet.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ >> 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmnet.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmnet.c >> index a6ce239..4e38a76 100644 >> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmnet.c >> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmnet.c >> @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ >> +/* >> + bcm/Bcmnet.c >> + Bcm network driver >> + >> + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >> + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >> + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >> + (at your option) any later version. > > Why "or any later version"? Are you allowed to relicense the code here? > >> + >> + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, >> + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of >> + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the >> + GNU General Public License for more details. >> + >> + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License >> + along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software >> + Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > > Are you willing to track the office movements of the FSF for the next 40 > years and send patches updating the address? If not, NEVER, include > this paragraph, it's pointless. > > Anyway, as others stated, this is not acceptable for a "fix checkpatch > warnings" type of patch, please redo it. Fair point. I'll re-generate the patch. thanks, vinay > > thanks, > > greg k-h > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel