Re: [PATCH 10/20] reset: mchp: sparx5: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Steen Hegelund
Date: Tue Feb 28 2023 - 09:53:31 EST


Hi Nick,

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:02 +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
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> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: UNGLinuxDriver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/reset/reset-microchip-sparx5.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/reset/reset-microchip-sparx5.c b/drivers/reset/reset-
> microchip-sparx5.c
> index f3528dd1d084e..ead25942061d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/reset/reset-microchip-sparx5.c
> +++ b/drivers/reset/reset-microchip-sparx5.c
> @@ -179,4 +179,3 @@ postcore_initcall(mchp_sparx5_reset_init);
>
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Microchip Sparx5 switch reset driver");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>

BR
Steen