Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/27] kbuild, clk: bcm2835: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:43:40 -0800 |
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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@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: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com> > Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> > Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> > Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> > Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com> > Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > ---
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Unless you want me to pick this up?
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