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From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>,
	Matt Johnston <matt@codeconstruct.com.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mctp: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Date: Wed,  8 Mar 2023 12:12:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230308121230.5354-2-nick.alcock@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230308121230.5354-1-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 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: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 net/mctp/af_mctp.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(Reposted to netdev as requested.)

diff --git a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
index 3150f3f0c8725..bb4bd0b6a4f79 100644
--- a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
+++ b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ subsys_initcall(mctp_init);
 module_exit(mctp_exit);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MCTP core");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>");
 
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_MCTP);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-08 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-08 12:12 [PATCH] lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules Nick Alcock
2023-03-08 12:12 ` Nick Alcock [this message]
2023-03-10  7:11   ` [PATCH] mctp: " patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2023-03-10  7:30 ` [PATCH] lib: packing: " patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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