Re: [PATCH 3.16 191/410] Input: mms114 - fix license module information

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 14:41 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 3.16.57-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Not a hard objection, but rather a curiosity: for this to be pulled
> into stable what user issue does this fix?

I start by selecting anything with a 'Cc: stable' or Fixes tag for a
commit that's in the stable branch.  If it applies cleanly I might not
look far beyond that.

This commit doesn't really meet the stable kernel rules, but it's
fixing documentation and is low risk so I'll keep it.

Ben.

> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 498e7e7ed1fd72c275a682f0903c4a20cc538658 upstream.
> > 
> > The driver has been released with GNU Public License v2 as stated
> > in the header, but the module license information has been tagged
> > as "GPL" (GNU Public License v2 or later).
> > 
> > Fix the module license information so that it matches the one in
> > the header as "GPL v2".
> > 
> > Fixes: 07b8481d4aff ("Input: add MELFAS mms114 touchscreen driver")
> > Reported-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/mms114.c
> > @@ -592,4 +592,4 @@ module_i2c_driver(mms114_driver);
> >  /* Module information */
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@xxxxxxxxxxx>");
> >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MELFAS mms114 Touchscreen driver");
> > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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Ben Hutchings
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