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Patch "ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

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

ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag

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:

     arm-8743-1-bl_switcher-add-module_license-tag.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

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From a21b4c10c7bf5b58112afa20d6fa829e8d74e3e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:53:18 +0100
Subject: ARM: 8743/1: bL_switcher: add MODULE_LICENSE tag

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit a21b4c10c7bf5b58112afa20d6fa829e8d74e3e6 upstream.

Without this tag, we get a build warning:

WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in arch/arm/common/bL_switcher_dummy_if.o

For completeness, I'm also adding author and description fields.

---
 arch/arm/common/bL_switcher_dummy_if.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
arch/arm/common/bL_switcher_dummy_if.c +4 -0
@@ -57,3 +57,7 @@ static struct miscdevice bL_switcher_dev
 	&bL_switcher_fops
 };
 module_misc_device(bL_switcher_device);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("big.LITTLE switcher dummy user interface");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/asoc-ux500-add-module_license-tag.patch queue-4.15/video-fbdev-mmp-add-module_license.patch queue-4.15/arm64-dts-add-cooling-cells-to-cpu-nodes.patch queue-4.15/arm-8743-1-bl_switcher-add-module_license-tag.patch queue-4.15/soc-qcom-rmtfs_mem-add-missing-module_description-author-license.patch