Re: [PATCH 12/24] kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne petek, 17. februar 2023 ob 15:10:47 CET je Nick Alcock napisal(a):
> 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: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-sunxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jernej