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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/18] mfd: da903x: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
    On Wed, 08 Mar 2023, 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@oracle.com>
    > Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    > Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    > Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
    > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    > Cc: Support Opensource <support.opensource@diasemi.com>
    > Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
    > ---
    > drivers/mfd/da903x.c | 1 -
    > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

    All applied, thanks

    --
    Lee Jones [李琼斯]

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