Re: [PATCH 13/20] reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 07:26:55PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> [dropped non-lists to defend innocent ears from my flaming pedantry]
> 
> On 28 Feb 2023, Conor Dooley stated:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 01:02:08PM +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: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> >> Cc: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>
> >> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> >> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/reset/reset-mpfs.c | 1 -
> >
> > I assume your script just got confused here w/ $subject, since there's
> > only a change for this specific file.
> 
> This file has had no commits since you wrote it last year, and the
> subject for that commit was
> 
>     reset: add polarfire soc reset support
> 
> so, er, yes, the script used 'reset:' as a prefix, mimicking the
> existing commit. I'm not sure what else it could have done.

Oh ye, silly me - I didn't think of that. I guess that's a common
pattern for commits adding a driver, as the "mpfs:" doesn't really make
sense until the driver is in-tree.
I'm not too sure what you could have done either, but I'm not
complaining, or requesting that something be changed here.

> (Regarding the rest of the subject line, I suppose I could have arranged
> to detect single-file commits and turned the subject into 'in this
> non-module'? But there comes a time when even I think that maybe I might
> be overdesigning something, and automated grammatical adjustments to the
> subject line was that point!)

Yeah, I think it's not worth doing anything about really...

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