Re: [PATCH 1/2] memory: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 08/03/2023 21:21, Nick Alcock wrote:
> Since commit 8b41fc4454e3 ("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: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/memory/tegra/mc.c           | 1 -
>  drivers/memory/tegra/tegra186-emc.c | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> checkpatch-clean and fused together now.

This is v2, not v1. Version the patches, always.


Best regards,
Krzysztof