Re: [PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:37PM +0000, 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I squashed this one into my pci/kbuild branch for v6.3, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> index 853e04ad272c..c02257f4b61c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ static struct acpiphp_attention_info *attention_info;
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "disable acpiphp driver");
>  module_param_named(disable, acpiphp_disabled, bool, 0444);
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>