Re: [PATCH 05/27] cpufreq: intel_pstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-02-28T20:30:39Z

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:09 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: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> index fd73d6d2b808..0f3e1a1aab4c 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> @@ -3530,4 +3530,3 @@ early_param("intel_pstate", intel_pstate_setup);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("'intel_pstate' - P state driver Intel Core processors");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --

Applied as 6.3-rc material, thanks!