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@ubject: Re: [PATCH 12/27] kbuild, clk: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
        linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>, mcgrof@kernel.org
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:43:54 -0800
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Quoting Nick Alcock (2023-02-22 04:14:38)
> 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.
>=20
> So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
> modules.
>=20
> 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: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
> ---

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