Re: [PATCH 01/18] mfd: da903x: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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On Wed, 08 Mar 2023, Nick Alcock 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 <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Support Opensource <support.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/da903x.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

All applied, thanks

--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]



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