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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0h6LiifjEQRJrWkSc4MT-7GJbEkoaxA1nWj6oALwEH6gg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:02:40 +0100
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
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>,
Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/24] kbuild, cpufreq: amd-pstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE
in non-modules
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:11 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com> 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: Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> index c17bd845f5fc..adbc7b0921aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> @@ -686,4 +686,3 @@ early_param("amd_pstate", amd_pstate_param);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AMD Processor P-state Frequency Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
Applied as 6.3-rc material, thanks!
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