On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 03:43:40PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Nick Alcock (2023-02-22 04:14:37)
> > 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 <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-clk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Unless you want me to pick this up?
Up to you, you can pick it up, and by rc3 of the next kernel I pick up
the last stragglers that no one picks up as reflected on linux-next.
Luis
