Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 13/24] kbuild, clk: bm1880: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:43:36 -0800 |
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Quoting Nick Alcock (2023-02-17 06:10:48) > 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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org> > Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com> > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org > ---
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
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