From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/20] clk: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:08:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cvbu1cc.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUFePvbBk7ELH3s8QrTiqEoC0xwQN_YCr9brSaFede-ig@mail.gmail.com> (Geert Uytterhoeven's message of "Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:45:51 +0100")
On 28 Feb 2023, Geert Uytterhoeven outgrape:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:03 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>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
>> drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c | 1 -
>
> I think it would make sense to make CLK_RCAR_USB2_CLOCK_SEL
> tristate. Shimoda-san?
This patch touches three files, so I hope that means the MODULE_LICENSE
removal from drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c and
drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c is OK :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-20 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-28 13:01 [PATCH 00/20] MODULE_LICENSE removals, fifth tranche Nick Alcock
2023-02-28 13:01 ` [PATCH 04/20] pinctrl: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules Nick Alcock
2023-02-28 13:02 ` [PATCH 09/20] clk: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-28 13:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-02-28 14:07 ` Adam Ford
2023-03-20 11:08 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2023-02-28 13:47 ` [PATCH 00/20] MODULE_LICENSE removals, fifth tranche Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-03-20 11:06 ` Nick Alcock
2023-03-09 16:14 ` Greg KH
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