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Message-ID: <Y/joT9FM5Q8Fz7Hw@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:39:43 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy@...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>,
        Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] mfd: intel_soc_pmic_crc: remove MODULE_LICENSE in
 non-modules

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 03:07:48PM +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: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>

Please, use --cc parameter instead of polluting commit message.

With this addressed,
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> index b1548a933dc3..b745ace46e5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/intel_soc_pmic_crc.c
> @@ -271,6 +271,5 @@ static struct i2c_driver crystal_cove_i2c_driver = {
>  module_i2c_driver(crystal_cove_i2c_driver);
>  
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("I2C driver for Intel SoC PMIC");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Yang, Bin <bin.yang@...el.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Zhu, Lejun <lejun.zhu@...ux.intel.com>");

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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