This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled gpio: iop: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: gpio-iop-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 97b03136e1b637d7a9d2274c099e44ecf23f1103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:54:52 -0800 Subject: gpio: iop: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> commit 97b03136e1b637d7a9d2274c099e44ecf23f1103 upstream. This change resolves a new compile-time warning when built as a loadable module: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.o see include/linux/module.h for more information This adds the license as "GPL", which matches the header of the file. MODULE_DESCRIPTION and MODULE_AUTHOR are also added. Signed-off-by: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.c @@ -130,3 +130,7 @@ static int __init iop3xx_gpio_init(void) return platform_driver_register(&iop3xx_gpio_driver); } arch_initcall(iop3xx_gpio_init); + +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("GPIO handling for Intel IOP3xx processors"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/gpio-iop-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch