On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 15:19 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> There is no need to #define the license of the driver, just put it in
> the MODULE_LICENSE() line directly as a text string.
>
> This allows tools that check that the module license matches the source
> code license to work properly, as there is no need to unwind the
> unneeded dereference.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/hso.c b/drivers/net/usb/hso.c
[]
> @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@
>
> #define MOD_AUTHOR "Option Wireless"
> #define MOD_DESCRIPTION "USB High Speed Option driver"
> -#define MOD_LICENSE "GPL"
>
> #define HSO_MAX_NET_DEVICES 10
> #define HSO__MAX_MTU 2048
> @@ -3288,7 +3287,7 @@ module_exit(hso_exit);
>
> MODULE_AUTHOR(MOD_AUTHOR);
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION(MOD_DESCRIPTION);
> -MODULE_LICENSE(MOD_LICENSE);
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Probably all of these MODULE_<FOO>(MOD_<BAR>) uses could be
simplified as well.
Perhaps there's utility in a (cocci?) script that looks for
used-once
macro #defines in various types of macros.
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