netdev - Re: [PATCH] lib: packing: remove MODULE

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Message-Id: <167843341952.20837.16454201849686119608.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:30:19 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...nel.org,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com, olteanv@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Wed,  8 Mar 2023 12:12:29 +0000 you 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/efb5b62d7271

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