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Nick Alcock Feb. 28, 2023, 1:01 p.m. UTC 
This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.

(The commit log prefixes and Cc lists are automatically determined.  I've
eyeballed them, and they seem reasonable: my apologies if they are not.)

I'll be sending a sixth and final tranche in a few days. (In total, there are 121
patches in this series.)


The series at a whole can be found here:
  https://github.com/nickalcock/linux module-license

(This is a respin with kbuild: prefixes dropped.  The previous series,
used in the mailouts of tranche 3 and earlier, is in the
module-license-kbuild-prefix branch.)

Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Nick Alcock (20):
  perf/hw_breakpoint: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  pinctrl: amd: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  pinctrl: mediatek: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  pinctrl: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  lib: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  powercap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  power: supply: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  remoteproc: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  clk: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  reset: mchp: sparx5: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  reset: lantiq: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  clk: microchip: mpfs: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  rv/reactor: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  tty: serial: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  irqchip/irq-sl28cpld: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ARC: reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ARC: reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  power: reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  soc/tegra: cbb: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

 drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c          | 1 -
 drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c | 1 -
 drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c    | 1 -
 drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c           | 1 -
 drivers/irqchip/irq-sl28cpld.c            | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8188.c | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8192.c | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mt8365.c | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c             | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rza1.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rza2.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rzg2l.c   | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rzn1.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rzv2m.c   | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/as3722-poweroff.c     | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/gpio-poweroff.c       | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/gpio-restart.c        | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.c    | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/regulator-poweroff.c  | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/restart-poweroff.c    | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/tps65086-restart.c    | 1 -
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c  | 1 -
 drivers/power/supply/wm97xx_battery.c     | 1 -
 drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c           | 1 -
 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c      | 1 -
 drivers/reset/reset-axs10x.c              | 1 -
 drivers/reset/reset-hsdk.c                | 1 -
 drivers/reset/reset-lantiq.c              | 1 -
 drivers/reset/reset-microchip-sparx5.c    | 1 -
 drivers/reset/reset-mpfs.c                | 1 -
 drivers/soc/tegra/cbb/tegra194-cbb.c      | 1 -
 drivers/soc/tegra/cbb/tegra234-cbb.c      | 1 -
 drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c         | 1 -
 kernel/events/hw_breakpoint_test.c        | 1 -
 kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c           | 1 -
 kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c          | 1 -
 lib/pldmfw/pldmfw.c                       | 1 -
 37 files changed, 37 deletions(-)

Comments

Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Feb. 28, 2023, 1:19 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 2/28/23 10:02, 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@oracle.com>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>

-- Daniel
Geert Uytterhoeven Feb. 28, 2023, 1:47 p.m. UTC | #2 
Hi Nick,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:05 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> wrote:
> This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
> suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
> files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
> uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.

Does this mean you expect us to queue them for v6.3?
Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert
Greg Kroah-Hartman March 9, 2023, 4:14 p.m. UTC | #3 
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 01:01:55PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
> suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
> files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
> uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.

Why isn't kbuild fixed instead?  These files can have MODULE_AUTHOR()
and other macros when built into the kernel, what is so special about
MODULE_LICENSE() that prevents this from working properly?

There should not be a need to remove these markings in my opinion, why
treat one MODULE_* macro more special than others?

thanks,

greg k-h
Nick Alcock March 20, 2023, 11:06 a.m. UTC | #4 
On 28 Feb 2023, Geert Uytterhoeven outgrape:

> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:05 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> wrote:
>> This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
>> suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
>> files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
>> uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.
>
> Does this mean you expect us to queue them for v6.3?
> Thanks!

I believe Luis is planning to pull them in around -rc3, hence my
freshening the series up now, getting everyone's tags in, etc.