Re: [PATCH 06/24] kbuild, binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Carlos Llamas]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:41PM +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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 880224ec6abb..e36164108da6 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -6597,4 +6597,3 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
>  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>  #include "binder_trace.h"
>  
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> -- 
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
> 

Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks