[PATCH 05/27] kbuild, soc: bcm: bcm2835-power: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 13:26:23 PST 2023


On 2/22/23 04:14, Nick Alcock wrote:
> Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
> Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
> are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
> in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
> object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
> might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.
> 
> So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
> modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-modules at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi at fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-rpi-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org

Applied to drivers/next (cannot push right now due to some firewall 
issue). Thanks!
-- 
Florian




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