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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:02:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230217150241.GA3400483@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230217141059.392471-3-nick.alcock@oracle.com>

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
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-17 14:10 [PATCH 00/24] MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 01/24] kbuild, soc: fujitsu: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 02/24] kbuild, PCI: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 15:02   ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 03/24] kbuild, mfd: altera-sysmgr: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 04/24] kbuild, irqchip/al-fic: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 05/24] kbuild, cpufreq: amd-pstate: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-23 19:02   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 06/24] kbuild, binder: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 20:18   ` Carlos Llamas
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 07/24] kbuild, bus: arm-integrator-lm: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 08/24] kbuild, drivers/perf: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 09/24] kbuild, ARM: tegra: " Nick Alcock
2023-04-05 13:09   ` (subset) " Thierry Reding
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 10/24] kbuild, pinctrl: actions: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 11/24] kbuild, soc: apple: apple-pmgr-pwrstate: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-19 12:38   ` Sven Peter
2023-02-20  5:00   ` Eric Curtin
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 12/24] kbuild, soc: sunxi: sram: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-21 18:24   ` Jernej Škrabec
2023-03-14 20:39   ` Jernej Škrabec
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 13/24] kbuild, clk: bm1880: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 22:43   ` Stephen Boyd
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 14/24] kbuild, firmware: imx: " Nick Alcock
2023-03-14  1:35   ` Shawn Guo
2023-03-20 10:36     ` Nick Alcock
2023-03-20 21:42       ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 15/24] kbuild, bus: ixp4xx: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 16/24] kbuild, irqchip/mvebu-pic: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 17/24] kbuild, pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm7xx: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 18/24] kbuild, bus: qcom: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 19/24] kbuild, bus: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 20/24] kbuild, gpio: " Nick Alcock
2023-03-06  9:58   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 21/24] kbuild, serial: " Nick Alcock
2023-03-09 16:17   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 22/24] kbuild, dmaengine: s3c24xx: " Nick Alcock
2023-02-17 14:20   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: " Nick Alcock
2023-04-01 11:56   ` Borislav Petkov
2023-02-17 14:10 ` [PATCH 24/24] kbuild, power: reset: keystone-reset: " Nick Alcock
2023-03-27 15:01 ` [PATCH 00/24] MODULE_LICENSE removals, second tranche Will Deacon

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