The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-validate-module_license-content.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
There is a well defined list of expected values for MODULE_LICENSE so warn
the user upon usage of unknown values.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-validate-module_license-content scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-validate-module_license-content
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5626,6 +5626,24 @@ sub process {
}
}
}
+
+# validate content of MODULE_LICENSE against list from include/linux/module.h
+ if ($line =~ /\bMODULE_LICENSE\s*\(\s*($String)\s*\)/) {
+ my $extracted_string = get_quoted_string($line, $rawline);
+ my $valid_licenses = qr{
+ GPL|
+ GPL\ v2|
+ GPL\ and\ additional\ rights|
+ Dual\ BSD/GPL|
+ Dual\ MIT/GPL|
+ Dual\ MPL/GPL|
+ Proprietary
+ }x;
+ if ($extracted_string !~ /^"(?:$valid_licenses)"$/x) {
+ WARN("MODULE_LICENSE",
+ "unknown module license " . $extracted_string . "\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
}
# If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
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