Re: [PATCH 09/20] clk: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-02-28T13:47:30Z

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?
The Beacon Renesom seems to be the only board where this
is wired up, Adam?

> drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c | 1 -
> drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c b/drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c
> index 684d8937965e0..ba6b5bd67786f 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c
> @@ -220,4 +220,3 @@ static struct platform_driver rcar_usb2_clock_sel_driver = {
> builtin_platform_driver(rcar_usb2_clock_sel_driver);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Renesas R-Car USB2 clock selector Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c b/drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c
> index 1a0cdf001b2f2..bfe5dc9a2e36b 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c
> @@ -1154,4 +1154,3 @@ void __init mssr_mod_reparent(struct mssr_mod_clk *mod_clks,
> }
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Renesas CPG/MSSR Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c b/drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c
> index 4bf40f6ccd1d1..93b02cdc98c25 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c
> @@ -1440,4 +1440,3 @@ static int __init rzg2l_cpg_init(void)
> subsys_initcall(rzg2l_cpg_init);
>
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Renesas RZ/G2L CPG Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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