Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Central Direct Memory Access Engine driver support

From: Michal Simek
Date: Tue Jun 09 2015 - 08:40:07 EST


On 06/09/2015 02:24 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:12 +0200, Michal Simek wrote
>> ok. Will check all our drivers we have to get it synchronized but I
>> expect that a lot of drivers have problems there.
>
> So do I. Cleaning that all up would add a lot of churn. I'm _not_
> volunteering to do that.

Wolfram? You have been pretty successful with fixing owner field.
This looks like similar task.

>
> What I decided to do was to (try to) comment on each patch that adds
> another license mismatch. The idea being that this might annoy someone
> into suggesting a (mostly) fool proof alternative to MODULE_LICENSE().
> That didn't really work out yet (though Julia's and your response is
> encouraging)
>
> On the sunny side I note that very few new mismatches get added (at
> least, I tricked myself into believing that).

I expect that they will still come till this is properly reported by any
tool. And fixed everywhere because people just c&p drivers.

Thanks,
Michal

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