Re: [PATCH 04/27] mfd: intel_soc_pmic_crc: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Mar 03 2023 - 06:02:07 EST


On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 03:07:48PM +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: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please, use --cc parameter instead of polluting commit message.

I personally use this a lot. It's better for scripting.

It's okay, I will remove this when applying.

> With this addressed,
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> > index b1548a933dc3..b745ace46e5b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> > @@ -271,6 +271,5 @@ static struct i2c_driver crystal_cove_i2c_driver = {
> > module_i2c_driver(crystal_cove_i2c_driver);
> >
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("I2C driver for Intel SoC PMIC");
> > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("Yang, Bin <bin.yang@xxxxxxxxx>");
> > MODULE_AUTHOR("Zhu, Lejun <lejun.zhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]