[PATCH 1/8] kbuild, PCI: generic,versatile: comment out MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: mcgrof@kernel.org
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] kbuild, PCI: generic,versatile: comment out MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:47:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230210164749.368998-2-nick.alcock@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230210164749.368998-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com>

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 comment out all uses of MODULE_LICENSE that are not in real modules
(the license declaration is left in as documentation).

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: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c
index 7991d334e0f1..afa9d4694501 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c
@@ -169,4 +169,4 @@ static struct platform_driver versatile_pci_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(versatile_pci_driver);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Versatile PCI driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+/* MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); */
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

