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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/7] kbuild, PCI: endpoint: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 03:24:07PM +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@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>

Thanks,
Mani

> 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: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c | 1 -
> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c | 1 -
> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c | 1 -
> drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 1 -
> 4 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c
> index d4850bdd837f..4b8ac0ac84d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c
> @@ -728,4 +728,3 @@ module_exit(pci_ep_cfs_exit);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PCI EP CONFIGFS");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c
> index 2542196e8c3d..dd750ad29485 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c
> @@ -861,4 +861,3 @@ module_exit(pci_epc_exit);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PCI EPC Library");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c
> index a97b56a6d2db..7dcf6f480b82 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c
> @@ -260,4 +260,3 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_epc_mem_free_addr);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PCI EPC Address Space Management");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> index 9ed556936f48..2036e38be093 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> @@ -568,4 +568,3 @@ module_exit(pci_epf_exit);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PCI EPF Library");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>

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