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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index b01c36a15d9d..b7c181ea0ac5 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 |