[PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Shawn Guo
shawnguo at kernel.org
Mon Mar 13 18:35:39 PDT 2023
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:49PM +0000, 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>
Should I apply it as a fix for 6.3-rc with Cc stable tag, or can it be
a material for -next?
Shawn
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