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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:30:17 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/27] memory: tegra: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>, mcgrof@kernel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
        linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
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 <20230224150811.80316-16-nick.alcock@oracle.com>
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From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
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On 24/02/2023 16:07, 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.
> 

Applied as well. Squashed with next one. Same subject messes with b4, so
prefix should be corrected if these were to stay as separate patches.

Best regards,
Krzysztof