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From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To:     Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>, mcgrof@kernel.org
Cc:     Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
        linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH 20/20] soc/tegra: cbb: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
Date:   Wed,  5 Apr 2023 15:09:50 +0200
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From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:02:15 +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.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[20/20] soc/tegra: cbb: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
        (no commit info)

Best regards,
-- 
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>