linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/27] kbuild, clk: remove MODULE

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Message-ID: <Y/YNdSkRnafr9Vg3@wendy>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:41:25 +0000
From:   Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
CC:     <mcgrof@...nel.org>, <linux-modules@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/27] kbuild, clk: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 12:14:38PM +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@...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: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-clk@...r.kernel.org

>  drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs-ccc.c | 1 -

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>
And since there's no reason to have this split via the at91 tree:
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>

Clearly there's a hole in my maintainers entry for this driver, I'll go
fix that.

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