Re: [PATCH 24/27] firmware: xilinx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Michal Simek
2023-02-27T11:51:27Z

On 2/24/23 16:08, 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: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---
> drivers/nvmem/zynqmp_nvmem.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/zynqmp_nvmem.c b/drivers/nvmem/zynqmp_nvmem.c
> index e28d7b133e11..844c1d861dea 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/zynqmp_nvmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/zynqmp_nvmem.c
> @@ -78,4 +78,3 @@ module_platform_driver(zynqmp_nvmem_driver);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>, Nava kishore Manne <navam@xilinx.com>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ZynqMP NVMEM driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>

I would prefer to fix this by changing Kconfig symbol from bool to tristate.

Thanks,
Michal