Re: [PATCH 1/2] memory: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Mar 09 2023 - 01:19:51 EST


On 08/03/2023 21:21, Nick Alcock wrote:
> Since commit 8b41fc4454e3 ("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: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-tegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/memory/tegra/mc.c | 1 -
> drivers/memory/tegra/tegra186-emc.c | 1 -
> 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> checkpatch-clean and fused together now.

This is v2, not v1. Version the patches, always.


Best regards,
Krzysztof