Patch "gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

Patch "gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_license.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:01:49 +0900
Subject: gpio: uniphier: fix mismatch between license text and MODULE_LICENSE

From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

commit 13f9d59cef91a027bb338fc79b564fafa7680cd8 upstream.

The comment block of this file indicates GPL-2.0 "only", while the
MODULE_LICENSE is GPL-2.0 "or later", as include/linux/module.h
describes as follows:

  "GPL"                           [GNU Public License v2 or later]
  "GPL v2"                        [GNU Public License v2]

I am the author of this driver, and my intention is GPL-2.0 "only".

Fixes: dbe776c2ca54 ("gpio: uniphier: add UniPhier GPIO controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-uniphier.c
@@ -505,4 +505,4 @@ module_platform_driver(uniphier_gpio_dri
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("UniPhier GPIO driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@socionext.com are

queue-4.15/gpio-uniphier-fix-mismatch-between-license-text-and-module_license.patch