Re: Add missing module license tag to vring helpers.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon May 06 2013 - 09:41:35 EST


On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 05:06:23PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > [ 624.286653] vringh: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks! This is exactly right.
>
> But note that the default license tag for otherwise-unlabelled modules
> would be "GPLv2". "GPL" means v2 or later (which is what I want, but
> it's not the kernel default).

It would be good if we could somehow catch missing tags at build-time
rather than have to run around fixing them after they get merged.

Dave

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