linux-kernel - Re: (subset) [PATCH 09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE

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Message-Id: <168070017411.4044223.15212068652607056465.b4-ty@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed,  5 Apr 2023 15:09:49 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>, mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH 09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:10:44 +0000, 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.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
        (no commit info)

Best regards,
-- 
Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>