Re: [PATCH 09/20] clk: renesas: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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On 28 Feb 2023, Geert Uytterhoeven outgrape:

> Hi Nick,
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:03 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
>>  drivers/clk/renesas/rcar-usb2-clock-sel.c | 1 -
>
> I think it would make sense to make CLK_RCAR_USB2_CLOCK_SEL
> tristate. Shimoda-san?

This patch touches three files, so I hope that means the MODULE_LICENSE
removal from drivers/clk/renesas/renesas-cpg-mssr.c and
drivers/clk/renesas/rzg2l-cpg.c is OK :)



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