[PATCH 00/24] MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche

[PATCH 00/24] MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche

[Nick Alcock]

This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.

(The commit log prefixes and Cc lists are automatically determined using
the script mentioned below.  I've eyeballed them, and they seem reasonable:
my apologies if they are not.)

I'll be sending a third 24-patch tranche in a few days if this one
doesn't blow up.

(In total, there are 121 patches in this series.)


The series at a whole can be found here:
  https://github.com/nickalcock/linux module-license

The patch splitter (not for upstreaming!) used to prepare these
commits can be found here:
  https://github.com/nickalcock/linux mass-split

Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-actions@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org

Nick Alcock (24):
  kbuild, soc: fujitsu: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, mfd: altera-sysmgr: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, irqchip/al-fic: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, cpufreq: amd-pstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, bus: arm-integrator-lm: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, drivers/perf: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, pinctrl: actions: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in
    non-modules
  kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, clk: bm1880: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, bus: ixp4xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, irqchip/mvebu-pic: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm7xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in
    non-modules
  kbuild, bus: qcom: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, bus: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, serial: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, dmaengine: s3c24xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  kbuild, power: reset: keystone-reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in
    non-modules

 drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c                  | 1 -
 drivers/android/binder.c                  | 1 -
 drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c           | 1 -
 drivers/bus/imx-weim.c                    | 1 -
 drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c             | 1 -
 drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c                   | 1 -
 drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c          | 1 -
 drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c                  | 1 -
 drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c              | 1 -
 drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c                 | 1 -
 drivers/edac/altera_edac.c                | 1 -
 drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c            | 1 -
 drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c             | 1 -
 drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c                   | 1 -
 drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c              | 1 -
 drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c           | 1 -
 drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c               | 1 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c        | 1 -
 drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c           | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c    | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c | 1 -
 drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c      | 1 -
 drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c   | 1 -
 drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c          | 1 -
 drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c            | 1 -
 drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c             | 1 -
 28 files changed, 28 deletions(-)

-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 01/24] kbuild, soc: fujitsu: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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>
---
 drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c b/drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c
index d87f348427bf..524fbfeb94e3 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/fujitsu/a64fx-diag.c
@@ -149,6 +149,5 @@ static struct platform_driver a64fx_diag_driver = {
 
 module_platform_driver(a64fx_diag_driver);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A64FX diag driver");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
index 853e04ad272c..c02257f4b61c 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ static struct acpiphp_attention_info *attention_info;
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "disable acpiphp driver");
 module_param_named(disable, acpiphp_disabled, bool, 0444);
 
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:37PM +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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org

I squashed this one into my pci/kbuild branch for v6.3, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> index 853e04ad272c..c02257f4b61c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ static struct acpiphp_attention_info *attention_info;
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR(DRIVER_AUTHOR);
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION(DRIVER_DESC);
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "disable acpiphp driver");
>  module_param_named(disable, acpiphp_disabled, bool, 0444);
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
> 

[PATCH 03/24] kbuild, mfd: altera-sysmgr: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c b/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
index 5d3715a28b28..af205813b281 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
@@ -198,4 +198,3 @@ module_exit(altr_sysmgr_exit);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer <>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SOCFPGA System Manager driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 04/24] kbuild, irqchip/al-fic: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Talel Shenhar <talel@amazon.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c
index 886de028a901..dfb761e86c9c 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Talel Shenhar");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Amazon's Annapurna Labs Interrupt Controller Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 
 enum al_fic_state {
 	AL_FIC_UNCONFIGURED = 0,
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 05/24] kbuild, cpufreq: amd-pstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
index c17bd845f5fc..adbc7b0921aa 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
@@ -686,4 +686,3 @@ early_param("amd_pstate", amd_pstate_param);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AMD Processor P-state Frequency Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 05/24] kbuild, cpufreq: amd-pstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:11 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 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: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> index c17bd845f5fc..adbc7b0921aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> @@ -686,4 +686,3 @@ early_param("amd_pstate", amd_pstate_param);
>
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AMD Processor P-state Frequency Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --

Applied as 6.3-rc material, thanks!

[PATCH 06/24] kbuild, binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
 drivers/android/binder.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index 880224ec6abb..e36164108da6 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -6597,4 +6597,3 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include "binder_trace.h"
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 06/24] kbuild, binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Carlos Llamas]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:41PM +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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
> Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/android/binder.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 880224ec6abb..e36164108da6 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -6597,4 +6597,3 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
>  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>  #include "binder_trace.h"
>  
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> -- 
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
> 

Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>

Thanks

[PATCH 07/24] kbuild, bus: arm-integrator-lm: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c b/drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c
index 2344d560b144..b715c8ab36e8 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/arm-integrator-lm.c
@@ -126,4 +126,3 @@ static struct platform_driver integrator_ap_lm_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(integrator_ap_lm_driver);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Integrator AP Logical Module driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 08/24] kbuild, drivers/perf: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c
index 979a7c2b4f56..7123beeb992f 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/apple_m1_cpu_pmu.c
@@ -581,4 +581,3 @@ static struct platform_driver m1_pmu_driver = {
 };
 
 module_platform_driver(m1_pmu_driver);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c b/drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c
index 0b2c20fddb7c..c0e8b765522d 100644
--- a/drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c
+++ b/drivers/amba/tegra-ahb.c
@@ -285,5 +285,4 @@ module_platform_driver(tegra_ahb_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Hiroshi DOYU <hdoyu@nvidia.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Tegra AHB driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRV_NAME);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: (subset) [PATCH 09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Thierry Reding]

From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:10:44 +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.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
        (no commit info)

Best regards,
-- 
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

[PATCH 10/24] kbuild, pinctrl: actions: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-actions@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c | 1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c
index ced778079b76..3bed4b8d08e6 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s500.c
@@ -1724,4 +1724,3 @@ module_exit(s500_pinctrl_exit);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Actions Semi Inc.");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@gmail.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Actions Semi S500 SoC Pinctrl Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c
index fd00940a5799..c2b472660e53 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s700.c
@@ -1908,4 +1908,3 @@ module_exit(s700_pinctrl_exit);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Actions Semi Inc.");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Actions Semi S700 Soc Pinctrl Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c
index 811249a8011e..8638d3007cd9 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/actions/pinctrl-s900.c
@@ -1827,4 +1827,3 @@ module_exit(s900_pinctrl_exit);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Actions Semi Inc.");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Actions Semi S900 SoC Pinctrl Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Cc: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
index e1122288409a..2c15474c7b53 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
@@ -319,6 +319,5 @@ static struct platform_driver apple_pmgr_ps_driver = {
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMGR power state driver for Apple SoCs");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 
 module_platform_driver(apple_pmgr_ps_driver);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Sven Peter]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, at 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.
>
> 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: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> Cc: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---

Acked-by: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>


Sven


>  drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c 
> b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> index e1122288409a..2c15474c7b53 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,5 @@ static struct platform_driver apple_pmgr_ps_driver 
> = {
> 
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMGR power state driver for Apple SoCs");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> 
>  module_platform_driver(apple_pmgr_ps_driver);
> -- 
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Eric Curtin]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 14:20, Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 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: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> Cc: Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: asahi@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Curtin <ecurtin@redhat.com>

Is mise le meas/Regards,

Eric Curtin

>  drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> index e1122288409a..2c15474c7b53 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/apple/apple-pmgr-pwrstate.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,5 @@ static struct platform_driver apple_pmgr_ps_driver = {
>
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMGR power state driver for Apple SoCs");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>
>  module_platform_driver(apple_pmgr_ps_driver);
> --
> 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
>
>

[PATCH 12/24] kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
---
 drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
index 92f9186c1c42..21116d47d26d 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
@@ -421,4 +421,3 @@ builtin_platform_driver_probe(sunxi_sram_driver, sunxi_sram_probe);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Allwinner sunXi SRAM Controller Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 12/24] kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne petek, 17. februar 2023 ob 15:10:47 CET je Nick Alcock napisal(a):
> 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: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
> Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev

Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>

Best regards,
Jernej

Re: [PATCH 12/24] kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne petek, 17. februar 2023 ob 15:10:47 CET je Nick Alcock napisal(a):
> 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: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
> Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev

Applied, thanks!

Best regards,
Jernej

> ---
>  drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
> index 92f9186c1c42..21116d47d26d 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/sunxi/sunxi_sram.c
> @@ -421,4 +421,3 @@ builtin_platform_driver_probe(sunxi_sram_driver,
> sunxi_sram_probe);
> 
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Allwinner sunXi SRAM Controller Driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

[PATCH 13/24] kbuild, clk: bm1880: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c b/drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c
index fad78a22218e..2a19e50fff68 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-bm1880.c
@@ -949,4 +949,3 @@ module_platform_driver(bm1880_clk_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Clock driver for Bitmain BM1880 SoC");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 13/24] kbuild, clk: bm1880: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Nick Alcock (2023-02-17 06:10:48)
> 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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
> Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
> ---

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>

[PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/bus/imx-weim.c         | 1 -
 drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c | 1 -
 drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c  | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c b/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
index 828c66bbaa67..a3a99299ad15 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
@@ -405,4 +405,3 @@ module_exit(weim_exit);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Freescale Semiconductor Inc.");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("i.MX EIM Controller Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c b/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c
index dca79caccd01..886bbc81e0b4 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-scu.c
@@ -358,4 +358,3 @@ builtin_platform_driver(imx_scu_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IMX SCU firmware protocol driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c b/drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c
index 2a4f07423365..7e8810bdfe0e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/imx/scu-pd.c
@@ -421,4 +421,3 @@ builtin_platform_driver(imx_sc_pd_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IMX SCU Power Domain driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:49PM +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>

Should I apply it as a fix for 6.3-rc with Cc stable tag, or can it be
a material for -next?

Shawn

Re: [PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

On 14 Mar 2023, Shawn Guo verbalised:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:49PM +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>
>
> Should I apply it as a fix for 6.3-rc with Cc stable tag, or can it be
> a material for -next?

This is currently built against -next, but Luis has indicated an intent
to pull the lot in via -rc3 (hence my scrambling to get the series
polished up for him, tags attached etc now). So, er... yes? :)

-- 
NULL && (void)

Re: [PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:36:15AM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2023, Shawn Guo verbalised:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:49PM +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>
> >
> > Should I apply it as a fix for 6.3-rc with Cc stable tag, or can it be
> > a material for -next?

These are not stable critical patches.

> This is currently built against -next, but Luis has indicated an intent
> to pull the lot in via -rc3 (hence my scrambling to get the series
> polished up for him, tags attached etc now). So, er... yes? :)

Those patches which don't get this simply can't benefit from future
tooling enhancements which Nick is working on which will leverage
correct mapping.

So yes, my goal is to pull up straggler patches except where some
maintainer explicitly don't want them. For instance, I will not be
taking in the patches for trees that Greg KH maintains as he would
prefer an alternative, but yet hasn't recommended an alternative
strategy to help with Nick's work.

  Luis

[PATCH 15/24] kbuild, bus: ixp4xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Cc: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@piap.pl>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c b/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
index 91db001eb69a..f5ba6bee6fd8 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
@@ -423,4 +423,3 @@ static struct platform_driver ixp4xx_exp_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(ixp4xx_exp_driver);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Intel IXP4xx external bus driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 16/24] kbuild, irqchip/mvebu-pic: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
index ef3d3646ccc2..37ea3fb6e928 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
@@ -195,6 +195,5 @@ module_platform_driver(mvebu_pic_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Yehuda Yitschak <yehuday@marvell.com>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mvebu_pic");
 
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 17/24] kbuild, pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm7xx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Avi Fishman <avifishman70@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>
Cc: Tali Perry <tali.perry1@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c b/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c
index ff5bcea172e8..4e12b3768d65 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c
@@ -2046,7 +2046,6 @@ static int __init npcm7xx_pinctrl_register(void)
 }
 arch_initcall(npcm7xx_pinctrl_register);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("jordan_hargrave@dell.com");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("tomer.maimon@nuvoton.com");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Nuvoton NPCM7XX Pinctrl and GPIO driver");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 18/24] kbuild, bus: qcom: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c b/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c
index 663c82749222..c1fef1b4bd89 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c
@@ -403,4 +403,3 @@ static struct platform_driver qcom_ebi2_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(qcom_ebi2_driver);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Qualcomm EBI2 driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 19/24] kbuild, bus: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c b/drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c
index eedeb29a5ff3..3fef18a43c01 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/qcom-ssc-block-bus.c
@@ -386,4 +386,3 @@ module_platform_driver(qcom_ssc_block_bus_driver);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("A driver for handling the init sequence needed for accessing the SSC block on (some) qcom SoCs over AHB");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Michael Srba <Michael.Srba@seznam.cz>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

[PATCH 20/24] kbuild, gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-unisoc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
index 62ba18b3a602..ab4137de5889 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
@@ -286,4 +286,3 @@ module_platform_driver_probe(rda_gpio_driver, rda_gpio_probe);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA Micro GPIO driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 20/24] kbuild, gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:12 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> 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.
>

Applied, thanks!

Bart

[PATCH 21/24] kbuild, serial: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-unisoc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
index be5c842b5ba9..c3b29d124759 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
@@ -825,4 +825,3 @@ module_exit(rda_uart_exit);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA8810PL serial device driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 21/24] kbuild, serial: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:56PM +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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-unisoc@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
> index be5c842b5ba9..c3b29d124759 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
> @@ -825,4 +825,3 @@ module_exit(rda_uart_exit);
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA8810PL serial device driver");
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

No, this should be fine, either force remove all MODULE_* macros from
built-in code, or none.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

[Nick Alcock]

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: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c b/drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c
index a09eeb545f7d..48965baa2fa1 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/s3c24xx-dma.c
@@ -1425,4 +1425,3 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(s3c24xx_dma_filter);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("S3C24XX DMA Driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Heiko Stuebner");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

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

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

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

[PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
 };
 module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 02:10:58PM +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: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
> @@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
>  };
>  module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);
>  
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
> -- 

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH 24/24] kbuild, power: reset: keystone-reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Nick Alcock]

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: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c b/drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c
index c720112db704..83a4e1c9bf94 100644
--- a/drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c
+++ b/drivers/power/reset/keystone-reset.c
@@ -169,5 +169,4 @@ module_platform_driver(rsctrl_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Texas Instruments keystone reset driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" KBUILD_MODNAME);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

Re: [PATCH 00/24] MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:10:35 +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
> This series, based on current modules-next, is part of a treewide cleanup
> suggested by Luis Chamberlain, to remove the LICENSE_MODULE usage from
> files/objects that are not tristate.  Due to recent changes to kbuild, these
> uses are now problematic.  See the commit logs for more details.
> 
> (The commit log prefixes and Cc lists are automatically determined using
> the script mentioned below.  I've eyeballed them, and they seem reasonable:
> my apologies if they are not.)
> 
> [...]

Applied drivers/perf patch to will (for-next/perf), thanks!

[08/24] kbuild, drivers/perf: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
        https://git.kernel.org/will/c/a64021d3726a

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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