From 6e8f42dc9c8548c6b37566f3b8bda1873700c4a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:05:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: prefer MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") over
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2")
There is no effective difference.
Given the large number of uses of "GPL v2", emit this message only for
patches as a trivial treeside sed could be done one day.
Ref: commit bf7fbeeae6db ("module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220128185924.80137-1-joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b01c36a15d9dd..b7c181ea0ac56 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7418,6 +7418,13 @@ sub process {
WARN("MODULE_LICENSE",
"unknown module license " . $extracted_string . "\n" . $herecurr);
}
+ if (!$file && $extracted_string eq '"GPL v2"') {
+ if (WARN("MODULE_LICENSE",
+ "Prefer \"GPL\" over \"GPL v2\" - see commit bf7fbeeae6db (\"module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE \"GPL\" vs. \"GPL v2\" bogosity\")\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bMODULE_LICENSE\s*\(\s*"GPL v2"\s*\)/MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")/;
+ }
+ }
}
# check for sysctl duplicate constants
--
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