linux-kernel - [PATCH 15/17] xen: remove MODULE

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Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2023 21:17:57 +0000
From:   Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
To:     mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH 15/17] xen: remove 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 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: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
---
 drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c       | 1 -
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
index 9784a77fa3c99..ca0249fc4d18f 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
@@ -413,4 +413,3 @@ bool xen_virtio_restricted_mem_acc(struct virtio_device *dev)
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen grant DMA-mapping layer");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
index 58b732dcbfb83..86c04f239e873 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -1066,4 +1066,3 @@ static int __init xenbus_init(void)
 
 postcore_initcall(xenbus_init);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303