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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/17] unicode: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
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Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> writes:

> 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: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---

Acked-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>

Thanks,

--
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi

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