linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/8] kbuild, PCI: mobiveil: comment out MODULE

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:47:43 +0000
From:   Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
To:     mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] kbuild, PCI: mobiveil: comment out MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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 comment out all uses of MODULE_LICENSE that are not in real modules
(the license declaration is left in as documentation).

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c b/drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c
index f6fcd95c2bf5..d16e4f5c726e 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c
@@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ static struct platform_driver mobiveil_pcie_driver = {
 
 builtin_platform_driver(mobiveil_pcie_driver);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+/* MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); */
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Mobiveil PCIe host controller driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Subrahmanya Lingappa <l.subrahmanya@...iveil.co.in>");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303