From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753575AbbJORLO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:11:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:47453 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752591AbbJORLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:11:12 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,686,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="77558116" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: phy: bcm-phy-lib: Fix module license issue To: David Miller , Arun Parameswaran References: <1444768812-31476-1-git-send-email-arunp@broadcom.com> <1444768812-31476-2-git-send-email-arunp@broadcom.com> <20151014.183947.1675991536904094202.davem@davemloft.net> CC: "f.fainelli@gmail.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , bcm-kernel-feedback-list From: Arun Parameswaran Message-ID: <561FDE2B.7090205@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:11:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151014.183947.1675991536904094202.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15-10-14 06:39 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Arun Parameswaran > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:40:12 -0700 > >> The 'bcm-phy-lib.c', added as a part of the commit >> "net: phy: Add Broadcom phy library for common interfaces" >> was missing the module license. This was causing an issue >> when the library is built as a module; "module license >> 'unspecified' taints kernel". >> >> This patch fixes the issue by adding the module license, >> author and description to the bcm-phy-lib.c file. >> >> Fixes: a1cba5613edf5 ("net: phy: Add Broadcom phy library for common >> interfaces") >> Signed-off-by: Arun Parameswaran > This patch doesn't apply to my net-next tree at all. There is a mismatch in the 'git diff' output, for the last 3 lines in bcm-phy-lib.c For some reason the patch I created has '@@ -207,3 +208,6 @@', instead of '@@ -206,3 +207,7 @@', when created from the 'net-next'. I will send out a patch based on the 'net-next'. Thanks Arun