Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:45:09 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/17] xen: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | From | Juergen Gross <> |
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On 02.03.23 22:17, 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: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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