Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the spi tree

Schrempf Frieder
2019-01-29T07:25:31Z

On 29.01.19 07:57, Yogesh Narayan Gaur wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr@canb.auug.org.au]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:33 AM
>> To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>; Linux Kernel Mailing
>> List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Yogesh Narayan Gaur
>> <yogeshnarayan.gaur@nxp.com>; Frieder Schrempf
>> <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>; Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>;
>> Ashish Kumar <ashish.kumar@nxp.com>
>> Subject: linux-next: build warning after merge of the spi tree
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After merging the spi tree, today's linux-next build (KCONFIG_NAME) produced
>> this warning:
>>
>> WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/spi/spi-nxp-fspi.o
>> see include/linux/module.h for more information
>>
> Can someone help in pointing out that why above warning message is coming for mentioned commit.
> Below MODULE_LICENSE string is present in the above mentioned file, drivers/spi/spi-nxp-fspi.c.
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

No, it is not present. Look at your patches [1] or at spi-next [2].
MODULE_LICENSE is definitely missing.

In patchwork the missing line was appended to the commit message instead
of the actual patch for some reason.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10764347/
[2]