Re: [PATCH v2] staging: octeon: Add the license identifier

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 13:34:27 EST


On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:31:50PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag
>
> Add a the SPDX-License-Identifier tag on line 1
>
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Other files in this folder have GPL-2.0 license. So this file should
> have the same license which was missing before and checkpatch.pl was
> giving the warning.

Why is this information not up in the changelog area?

And what changeds from v1? ALways put that below the --- line.

v3?

thanks,

greg k-h