This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: pcm512x: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE to the 4.9-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: asoc-pcm512x-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0cab20cec0b663b7be8e2be5998d5a4113647f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:45:49 -0800 Subject: ASoC: pcm512x: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE From: Jesse Chan <jc@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0cab20cec0b663b7be8e2be5998d5a4113647f86 upstream. This change resolves a new compile-time warning when built as a loadable module: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-pcm512x-spi.o see include/linux/module.h for more information This adds the license as "GPL v2", 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: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/codecs/pcm512x-spi.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/sound/soc/codecs/pcm512x-spi.c +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/pcm512x-spi.c @@ -70,3 +70,7 @@ static struct spi_driver pcm512x_spi_dri }; module_spi_driver(pcm512x_spi_driver); + +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ASoC PCM512x codec driver - SPI"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/auxdisplay-img-ascii-lcd-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch queue-4.9/asoc-pcm512x-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch queue-4.9/pinctrl-pxa-pxa2xx-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch