linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/27] memory: tegra: remove MODULE

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Message-ID: <16bee433-0088-d651-9592-96a2bb827b7f@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 19:25:26 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.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>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/27] memory: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On 06/03/2023 18:13, Nick Alcock wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2023, Krzysztof Kozlowski told this:
> 
>> On 06/03/2023 15:30, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 24/02/2023 16:07, 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.
>>>
>>> Applied as well. Squashed with next one. Same subject messes with b4, so
>>> prefix should be corrected if these were to stay as separate patches.
>>
>> And all dropped. Run checkpatch before sending patches.
> 
> So... which of the 27 patches n this series is being dropped? It would
> also be nice to know what the checkpatch problems were, because all I
> can see from checkpatch is one error per patch, an apparent false

The ones I responded that I applied - so the memory controller ones.


> positive:
> 
> ERROR: Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")' - ie: 'commit 8b41fc4454e3 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf")'
> 
> The commit message says:
> 
>> Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
>> Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
> 
> ... which unless I am seeing things is precisely what checkpatch.pl is
> asking for. Perhaps it can't handle wrapped lines, but not wrapping a
> git commit log line *also* (correctly) elicits a checkpatch error...

It's not a false positive, but an error I am asking fix (assuming there
are no more ones) There is no problem with wrapping lines - checkpatch
handles it.

Best regards,
Krzysztof