Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-eth/ethtool.c: Correction of SPDX license identifier

[Andrew Lunn]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:48:27PM +0000, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> 	This patch fix the checkpatch.p1 warning:
> 
> 	WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
> 	+/*
> 
> 	It includes the SPDX expression for GPL-2.0 and corrects the comment format to suit the kernel's coding style.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos (Charles) Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmelara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c b/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c
> index 40a7d47be913..49d417de64c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c
> @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
> -/*   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; version 2 of the License
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

Hi Carlos

drivers/staging/mt7621-eth$ grep LICENSE *
gsw_mt7621.c:MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
mtk_eth_soc.c:MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

And include/linux/module.h 
says:

/*
 * The following license idents are currently accepted as indicating free
 * software modules
 *
 *      "GPL"                           [GNU Public License v2 or later]
 *      "GPL v2"                        [GNU Public License v2]

So the SPDX string probably does not match the MODULE_LICENSE.

   Andrew