Re: [PATCH v3 01/19] dlb2: add skeleton for DLB 2.0 driver

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Gage Eads wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/misc/dlb2/dlb2_main.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +/* Copyright(c) 2018-2020 Intel Corporation */
> +
> +#include <linux/aer.h>
> +#include <linux/cdev.h>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/pci.h>
> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +
> +#include "dlb2_main.h"
> +
> +static const char
> +dlb2_driver_copyright[] = "Copyright(c) 2018-2020 Intel Corporation";

Why have this in a string and then:

> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Copyright(c) 2018-2020 Intel Corporation");

Not use it?

It's probably not needed at all, right?

Don't you get a build warning about this when applying and building this
patch?

thanks,

greg k-h