linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/17] zswap: remove MODULE

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Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2023 21:17:59 +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>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 17/17] zswap: 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: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 mm/zswap.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
index f6c89049cf700..f2fc0373b9677 100644
--- a/mm/zswap.c
+++ b/mm/zswap.c
@@ -1540,6 +1540,5 @@ static int __init init_zswap(void)
 /* must be late so crypto has time to come up */
 late_initcall(init_zswap);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Compressed cache for swap pages");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303