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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.16 191/410] Input: mms114 - fix license module information
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On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 14:41 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> 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@samsung.com>
> >
> > 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@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> > ---
> > 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@samsung.com>");
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MELFAS mms114 Touchscreen driver");
> > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> >
>
>
>
--
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

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