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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:37PM +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>
> 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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org

I squashed this one into my pci/kbuild branch for v6.3, thanks!

> ---
> drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> index 853e04ad272c..c02257f4b61c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ static struct acpiphp_attention_info *attention_info;
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "disable acpiphp driver");
> module_param_named(disable, acpiphp_disabled, bool, 0444);
>
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>

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