Re: [PATCH 18/27] kbuild, mfd: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On 23 Feb 2023, Lee Jones stated:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, DLG Adam Ward wrote:

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On 22/02/2023 12:15, Nick Alcock wrote:

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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.

Makes sense - but if you need to do a V2, would you mind removing the erroneous claim on DA9055 at the same time?

I don't know what this means. There are two references to DA9055 in this
patch, both in context (not in modified lines), one in
drivers/mfd/da9055-core.c, the other in rivers/mfd/da9055-i2c.c. To me
these both seem likely to be DA9055-related. Are you saying that one of
them isn't?

Could you do this anyway please.  While you're at it, please remove the
'kbuild' reference from the subject line, thanks.

I was going to say that it seems to be in active use, but I just checked
and a total of zero files touched by this series have ever used 'kbuild'
in their log prefixes anywhere. So... dropped, series-wide. (By the
overdesigned approach of using a kbuild: prefix if and only if at least
one file in the files touched in that commit has used that prefix
somewhere in its history.)

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