[PATCH 01/27] gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Bartosz Golaszewski brgl at bgdev.pl
Mon Mar 6 01:47:52 PST 2023


On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> ---

Applied, thanks!

Bart



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