linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/20] pinctrl: amd: remove MODULE

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2023 14:08:34 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...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>,
        Basavaraj Natikar <Basavaraj.Natikar@....com>,
        Shyam Sundar S K <Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/20] pinctrl: amd: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:02 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com> 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: Basavaraj Natikar <Basavaraj.Natikar@....com>
> Cc: Shyam Sundar S K <Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org

Can I just merge the 3 pinctrl patches to the pinctrl tree or are there
any dependencies?

Yours,
Linus Walleij