On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:01:58AM -0700, Michael G. Janicki wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Halil Demirezen wrote:
> Beginning around kernel 2.1 modules began containing a license
> which can be set with the macro MODULE_LICENSE. Currently
> accepted licenses are listed in include/linux/module.h. I usually
> use a template like this to handle the basic stuff for test
> modules:
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) && ! defined(MODVERSIONS)
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
> #define MODVERSIONS
> #endif
>
> #ifndef KERNEL_VERSION
> #define KERNEL_VERSION(ver,rel,seq) (((ver)<<16) | ((rel)<<8) | (seq))
> #endif
>
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,1,0)
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Some Author");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Some Description");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> #endif
>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
Note that these includes must go first, because its where KERNEL_VERSION
and MODULE_LICENCE are defined.
Also note, that
#ifdef MODULE_LICENCE
MODULE_AUTHOR("Some Author");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Some Description");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#endif
would suffice without the need to know in which version these were
introduced.
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