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[12/20] clk: microchip: mpfs: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230228130215.289081-13-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
Delegated to: Conor Dooley
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Series MODULE_LICENSE removals, fifth tranche | expand

Commit Message

Nick Alcock Feb. 28, 2023, 1:02 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: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Cc: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>
Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Conor Dooley Feb. 28, 2023, 7:19 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 01:02:07PM +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: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Cc: Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
> index 4f0a19db7ed74..d85b345f4c08d 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
> @@ -513,4 +513,3 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip PolarFire SoC Clock Driver");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Padmarao Begari <padmarao.begari@microchip.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

I'll take this via the microchip/at91 clock tree after v6.3-rc1 has been
released.

Thanks,
Conor.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
index 4f0a19db7ed74..d85b345f4c08d 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/microchip/clk-mpfs.c
@@ -513,4 +513,3 @@  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip PolarFire SoC Clock Driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Padmarao Begari <padmarao.begari@microchip.com>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daire McNamara <daire.mcnamara@microchip.com>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");