Re: [PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:58PM +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: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> @@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
>  };
>  module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);
>  
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
> -- 

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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