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[21/27] mfd: bcm2835-pm: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230224150811.80316-22-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/27] gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | expand

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Nick Alcock Feb. 24, 2023, 3:08 p.m. UTC 
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: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Lee Jones March 3, 2023, 10:53 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, 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: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
> Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks
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diff --git a/drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c b/drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c
index 49cd1f03884a..2c0aa2a2c893 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/bcm2835-pm.c
@@ -123,4 +123,3 @@  module_platform_driver(bcm2835_pm_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for Broadcom BCM2835 PM MFD");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");