Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-26
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[PATCH 06/17] watch_queue: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-02 23:11:29
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: 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>
---
 kernel/watch_queue.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/watch_queue.c b/kernel/watch_queue.c
index a6f9bdd956c39..5deed017bef42 100644
--- a/kernel/watch_queue.c
+++ b/kernel/watch_queue.c
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Watch queue");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Red Hat, Inc.");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 #define WATCH_QUEUE_NOTE_SIZE 128
 #define WATCH_QUEUE_NOTES_PER_PAGE (PAGE_SIZE / WATCH_QUEUE_NOTE_SIZE)
-- 
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