[PATCH 11/27] kbuild, clk: bcm2835: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Stephen Boyd sboyd at kernel.org
Mon Mar 6 11:29:57 PST 2023


Quoting Nick Alcock (2023-02-22 04:14:37)
> 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: Michael Turquette <mturquette at baylibre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> Cc: linux-clk at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-rpi-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> ---

Applied to clk-fixes



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