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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/20] powercap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:03 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 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: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c b/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c
> index 1f968353d4799..df806a788a02d 100644
> --- a/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c
> +++ b/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c
> @@ -675,4 +675,3 @@ fs_initcall(powercap_init);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PowerCap sysfs Driver");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> --

Applied as 6.3-rc material, thanks!

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