| Message ID | 20230217141059.392471-22-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche | expand |
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:56PM +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. > > 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> > Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> > Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com> > Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-unisoc@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > --- > drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c > index be5c842b5ba9..c3b29d124759 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c > @@ -825,4 +825,3 @@ module_exit(rda_uart_exit); > > MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>"); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA8810PL serial device driver"); > -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); No, this should be fine, either force remove all MODULE_* macros from built-in code, or none. thanks, greg k-h
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c index be5c842b5ba9..c3b29d124759 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c @@ -825,4 +825,3 @@ module_exit(rda_uart_exit); MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA8810PL serial device driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-unisoc@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)