This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE to the 4.15-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: auxdisplay-img-ascii-lcd-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 09c479f7f1fbfaf848e5813996793966cd50be81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:41:10 +0100 Subject: auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> commit 09c479f7f1fbfaf848e5813996793966cd50be81 upstream. This change resolves a new compile-time warning when built as a loadable module: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.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: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c @@ -441,3 +441,7 @@ static struct platform_driver img_ascii_ .remove = img_ascii_lcd_remove, }; module_platform_driver(img_ascii_lcd_driver); + +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Imagination Technologies ASCII LCD Display"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/auxdisplay-img-ascii-lcd-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch queue-4.15/asoc-pcm512x-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch queue-4.15/pinctrl-pxa-pxa2xx-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch