linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/27] mfd: bcm2835-pm: remove MODULE

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Message-ID: <99294bb7-d81b-4031-56b1-b412b4947b69@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:38:30 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>, mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/27] mfd: bcm2835-pm: remove MODULE_LICENSE in
 non-modules

On 2/24/23 07:08, 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>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian