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SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/27] mailbox: zynqmp-ipi: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
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On 2/24/23 16:07, 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: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---
> drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> index 12e004ff1a14..c4619d31477e 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> @@ -718,6 +718,5 @@ static void __exit zynqmp_ipi_exit(void)
> }
> module_exit(zynqmp_ipi_exit);
>
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xilinx ZynqMP IPI Mailbox driver");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Xilinx Inc.");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>

It is the same case as 24/27. Prefer to change Kconfig from bool to tristate.

Thanks,
Michal

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