Re: [PATCH 22/24] kbuild, dmaengine: s3c24xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Fri Feb 17 2023 - 09:20:57 EST


On 17/02/2023 15:10, 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.

I think you need to base your tree-wide patches on next. The driver was
removed. Please drop the patch.


Best regards,
Krzysztof