# Re: \[PATCH 01/27\] gpio: remove MODULE\_LICENSE in non-modules

- From: Bartosz Golaszewski \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-03-06 09:48:08 
- List: linux-modules
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/03/2121128
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112414/t.md

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM Nick Alcock [ref] 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.
>
> 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: <redacted>
> Cc: <redacted>
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <redacted>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: <redacted>
> Cc: <redacted>
> ---

Applied, thanks!

Bart
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