Re: [PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Sven Peter
2023-02-19T12:40:23Z

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 15:10, 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: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> Cc: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---

Acked-by: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>

Sven

> drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> index e1122288409a..2c15474c7b53 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,5 @@ static struct platform_driver apple_pmgr_ps_driver
> = {
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMGR power state driver for Apple SoCs");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>
> module_platform_driver(apple_pmgr_ps_driver);
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303