Re: [PATCH] hwrng: bcm2835: fix MODULE_LICENSE tag

From: Lubomir Rintel
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 12:57:24 EST


On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:54 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The MODULE_LICENSE macro invocation must use either "GPL" or "GPL v2",
> but not "GPLv2" in order to be detected by the module loader.
>
> This fixes the allmodconfig build error:
>
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module bcm2835-rng.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'platform_driver_unregister'

Thank you, obviously a typo of mine that slipped through. I'm wondering
if this could get queued for 3.10; it definitely can't do any harm.

Acked-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dom Cobley <popcornmix@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> index eb7f147..43577ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
> @@ -110,4 +110,4 @@ module_platform_driver(bcm2835_rng_driver);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("BCM2835 Random Number Generator (RNG) driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPLv2");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");


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