Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:12:02 +0100 | From | Michael Walle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/20] irqchip/irq-sl28cpld: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules |
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Am 2023-02-28 14:02, schrieb Nick Alcock: > 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>
Acked-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
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