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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds-net5501: taints kernel, add license
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:40:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288964426.28481.15863.camel@rex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101104102800.6b1cc210.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 10:28 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> Add MODULE_LICENSE() that matches file comments so that kernel
> is not tainted.
> 
> 	leds_net5501: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/leds/leds-net5501.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> Alessandro, why does this module not have a module_exit() function?
> I.e., why can it not be unloaded?
> 
> 
> --- lnx-2637-rc1.orig/drivers/leds/leds-net5501.c
> +++ lnx-2637-rc1/drivers/leds/leds-net5501.c
> @@ -92,3 +92,5 @@ unmap:
>  }
>  
>  arch_initcall(soekris_init);
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-05 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 17:28 [PATCH] leds-net5501: taints kernel, add license Randy Dunlap
2010-11-05 13:40 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2010-11-05 21:35 ` Alessandro Zummo

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