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[27/27] kbuild, gpio: gpio-aspeed-sgpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230222121453.91915-28-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/27] kbuild, power: reset: keystone-reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | expand

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Nick Alcock Feb. 22, 2023, 12:14 p.m. UTC 
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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed-sgpio.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Bartosz Golaszewski March 6, 2023, 9:59 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 1:17 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.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.
>

Applied, thanks!

Bart
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diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed-sgpio.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed-sgpio.c
index 454cefbeecf0..ecc94bfded86 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed-sgpio.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aspeed-sgpio.c
@@ -609,4 +609,3 @@  static struct platform_driver aspeed_sgpio_driver = {
 
 module_platform_driver_probe(aspeed_sgpio_driver, aspeed_sgpio_probe);
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Aspeed Serial GPIO Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");