This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_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:
gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_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 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:01:49 +0900
Subject: gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 upstream.
The comment block of this file indicates GPL-2.0 "only", while the
MODULE_LICENSE is GPL-2.0 "or later", as include/linux/module.h
describes as follows:
"GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later]
"GPL v2" [GNU Public License v2]
I am the author of this driver, and my intention is GPL-2.0 "only".
Fixes: dbe776c2ca54 ("gpio: uniphier: add UniPhier GPIO controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c
@@ -505,4 +505,4 @@ module_platform_driver(uniphier_gpio_dri
MODULE_AUTHOR("Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("UniPhier GPIO driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_license.patch