[PATCH v4 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Central Direct Memory Access Engine driver support
Michal Simek
monstr at monstr.eu
Tue Jun 9 00:09:38 PDT 2015
On 06/09/2015 08:10 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Michal Simek wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On 05/22/2015 12:30 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
>>> Again, just a nit: a license mismatch.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 22:37 +0530, Kedareswara rao Appana wrote:
>>>
>>>> + * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>>> + * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
>>>> + * (at your option) any later version.
>>>
>>>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>>>
>>> As I said in the message I sent a short while ago: here too I think that
>>> either the comment at the top of this file or the ident used in the
>>> MODULE_LICENSE() macro needs to change.
>>
>> This is not just the problem with this driver but with others too.
>> Have you sent any patch to add GPL v2+ to license.h?
>>
>> Also sort of checking for this will be great. Julia?
>
> If this requires checking the contents of comment, Coccinelle currently
> can't help with that. Perhaps an idea would be to just do a grep on the
> file. So if I find MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2") and then grepping for "either
> vresion 2" gives success, then there is a problem? It's obviously not
> foolproof, but perhaps it could be helpful.
Having some sort of checking somewhere will be great. checkpatch?
zero-day testing system?
Thanks,
Michal
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