* [PATCH] binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE()
@ 2025-08-17 13:50 Carlos Llamas
2025-08-18 20:37 ` Tiffany Yang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Carlos Llamas @ 2025-08-17 13:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alice Ryhl, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Arve Hjønnevåg,
Todd Kjos, Martijn Coenen, Joel Fernandes, Christian Brauner,
Carlos Llamas, Suren Baghdasaryan
Cc: Tiffany Yang, John Stultz, kernel-team, linux-kernel,
Salvatore Bonaccorso
The MODULE_LICENSE() macro is intended for drivers that can be built as
loadable modules. The binder driver is always built-in, using this macro
here is unnecessary and potentially confusing. Remove it.
Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
---
drivers/android/binder.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index 312b462e349d..28634f786e70 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -7088,5 +7088,3 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include "binder_trace.h"
-
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
--
2.51.0.rc1.163.g2494970778-goog
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* Re: [PATCH] binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE()
2025-08-17 13:50 [PATCH] binder: remove MODULE_LICENSE() Carlos Llamas
@ 2025-08-18 20:37 ` Tiffany Yang
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tiffany Yang @ 2025-08-18 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carlos Llamas
Cc: Alice Ryhl, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Arve Hjønnevåg,
Todd Kjos, Martijn Coenen, Joel Fernandes, Christian Brauner,
Suren Baghdasaryan, John Stultz, kernel-team, linux-kernel,
Salvatore Bonaccorso
Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> writes:
> The MODULE_LICENSE() macro is intended for drivers that can be built as
> loadable modules. The binder driver is always built-in, using this macro
> here is unnecessary and potentially confusing. Remove it.
> Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/android/binder.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> index 312b462e349d..28634f786e70 100644
> --- a/drivers/android/binder.c
> +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
> @@ -7088,5 +7088,3 @@ device_initcall(binder_init);
> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #include "binder_trace.h"
> -
> -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
Reviewed-by: Tiffany Yang <ynaffit@google.com>
--
Tiffany Y. Yang
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