Re: [PATCH 18/27] kbuild, mfd: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

On 24 Feb 2023, DLG Adam Ward told this:

> On 23/02/2023 19:25, Nick Alcock wrote:
>
>>> Makes sense - but if you need to do a V2, would you mind removing the erroneous claim on DA9055 at the same time?
>
>>I don't know what this means. There are two references to DA9055 in this patch, both in context (not in modified lines), one in drivers/mfd/da9055-core.c, the other in rivers/mfd/da9055-i2c.c. To me these both seem likely to be DA9055-related. Are you saying that one of them isn't?
>
> The comment was followed by this link - https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mfd/Kconfig#L36
> This files talks about the driver being a module, but, as you correctly point out, it is not.
> And never has been.
> So it is worth removing.

Ah! I never even thought of auditing the Kconfigs for erroneous
statements of modularity: that's a much harder-to-automate job.

I'm not planning to do this in general any time soon (because I'd have
to soup up Kconfig parsers and maybe write my own just for this), but
here's a reroll of this one patch that drops the erroneous Kconfig help
text:

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