Re: [PATCH 08/20] remoteproc: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>]

On 2/28/2023 6:32 PM, 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: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>

-Mukesh
> ---
>   drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> index 1cd4815a6dd19..de1ace44cb57b 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> @@ -2765,5 +2765,4 @@ static void __exit remoteproc_exit(void)
>   }
>   module_exit(remoteproc_exit);
>   
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
>   MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Generic Remote Processor Framework");