[PATCH 01/27] gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[PATCH 01/27] gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c | 1 -
 drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c     | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c
index 17be21b8f3b7..e190bde5397d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c
@@ -136,4 +136,3 @@ subsys_initcall_sync(_imx_scu_gpio_init);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NXP GPIO over IMX SCU API");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c
index 7f59e5d936c2..390e619a2831 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c
@@ -364,4 +364,3 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Freescale Semiconductor, "
 	      "Daniel Mack <danielncaiaq.de>, "
 	      "Juergen Beisert <kernel@pengutronix.de>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale MXS GPIO");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 01/27] gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---

Applied, thanks!

Bart