linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/27] mtd: bcm63xxpart: remove MODULE

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Message-Id: <20230307192302.353514-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Tue,  7 Mar 2023 20:23:02 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>, mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/27] mtd: bcm63xxpart: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 15:08:02 UTC, 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: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
> Cc: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel