Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers: ata: add support for Ceva sata host controller

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

[Adding Bjorn.]

> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:27:05AM +0530, Suneel Garapati wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_ceva.c

> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> > + * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
> > + * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> > + * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> > + * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
> > + * more details.
> > + *
> > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
> > + * this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

> > +MODULE_LICENSE("GPLv2");

You meant "GPL v2".

"GPLv2" is not one of the idents that pass license_is_gpl_compatible().
Loading a module with that ident should trigger a warning and taint the
kernel. See linux/module.h (or linux/license.h) for acceptable idents.

This is a bit of a gotcha. A patch that would have helped here was
posted in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/7/824 . I don't know why that
patch didn't make it into checkpatch.pl. Bjorn?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle