On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:07:53 +0000,
Nick Alcock [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzg2l.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzg2l.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzg2l.c
index 25fd8ee66565..4bbfa2b0a4df 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzg2l.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-renesas-rzg2l.c
@@ -390,4 +390,3 @@ IRQCHIP_MATCH("renesas,rzg2l-irqc", rzg2l_irqc_init)
IRQCHIP_PLATFORM_DRIVER_END(rzg2l_irqc)
MODULE_AUTHOR("Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Renesas RZ/G2L IRQC Driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
I'm probably missing some context here, but I find it odd to drop
something that is a important piece of information because of what
looks like a tooling regression.
It also means that once a random driver gets enabled as a module, it
won't load because it is now missing a MODULE_LICENSE() annotation.
It feels like MODULE_LICENSE should instead degrade to an empty
statement when MODULE isn't defined. Why isn't this approach the
correct one?
I expect the cover letter would have some pretty good information on
this, but lore.kernel.org doesn't seem to have it at the time I write
this ("Message-ID [off-list ref] not
found").
Thanks,
M.
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