Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 15 authors, 2023-04-05
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[PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-17 14:15:07
Also in: linux-edac, lkml
Subsystem: arm/socfpga edac support, edac-core, the rest · Maintainers: Dinh Nguyen, Borislav Petkov, Tony Luck, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
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: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
 };
 module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
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