Re: [PATCH 12/27] kbuild, clk: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Conor Dooley
2023-02-22T12:41:56Z

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On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:14:38PM +0000, 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: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org

> drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c | 1 -

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
And since there's no reason to have this split via the at91 tree:
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

Clearly there's a hole in my maintainers entry for this driver, I'll go
fix that.

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