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[19/27] irqchip/mchp-eic: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230224150811.80316-20-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: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Claudiu Beznea March 3, 2023, 11:23 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 24.02.2023 17:08, Nick Alcock wrote:
> EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe
> 
> 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: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org

Reviewed-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>


> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
> index c726a19837d2..5dcd94c000a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
> @@ -276,5 +276,4 @@ IRQCHIP_MATCH("microchip,sama7g5-eic", mchp_eic_init)
>  IRQCHIP_PLATFORM_DRIVER_END(mchp_eic)
> 
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip External Interrupt Controller");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>
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diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
index c726a19837d2..5dcd94c000a2 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mchp-eic.c
@@ -276,5 +276,4 @@  IRQCHIP_MATCH("microchip,sama7g5-eic", mchp_eic_init)
 IRQCHIP_PLATFORM_DRIVER_END(mchp_eic)
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip External Interrupt Controller");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>");