Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:38:54 +0100 | From | "Sven Peter" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules |
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 15:10, 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: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> > Cc: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev> > Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> > Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > ---
Acked-by: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
Sven
> drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c > b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c > index e1122288409a..2c15474c7b53 100644 > --- a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c > +++ b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c > @@ -319,6 +319,5 @@ static struct platform_driver apple_pmgr_ps_driver > = { > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>"); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMGR power state driver for Apple SoCs"); > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); > > module_platform_driver(apple_pmgr_ps_driver); > -- > 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
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