History log of /linux-master/drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# f98954b2 16-Feb-2023 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>

PCI: Remove MODULE_LICENSE so boolean drivers don't look like modules

Since 8b41fc4454e3 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations are
used to identify modules. As a consequence, MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
causes modprobe to misidentify the object file as a module when it is not,
and modprobe might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error
message.

For tristate modules that can be either built-in or loaded at runtime,
modprobe succeeds in both cases:

# modprobe ext4
[exit status zero if CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y or =m]

For boolean modules like the Standard Hot Plug Controller driver (shpchp)
that cannot be loaded at runtime, modprobe should always fail like this:

# modprobe shpchp
modprobe: FATAL: Module shpchp not found in directory /lib/modules/...
[exit status non-zero regardless of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC]

but prior to this commit, shpchp_core.c contained MODULE_LICENSE, so
"modprobe shpchp" silently succeeded when it should have failed.

Remove MODULE_LICENSE in files that cannot be built as modules.

[bhelgaas: commit log, squash]
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216152410.4312-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com/
Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>


# 03bdc388 12-Feb-2020 Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>

PCI: mobiveil: Modularize the Mobiveil PCIe Host Bridge IP driver

Modularize the Mobiveil PCIe host driver according to the abstraction of
Root Complex and Endpoint and move it into a new directory in order to
make it easier to reuse the driver functions to add new host drivers for
systems integrating the Mobiveil PCIe GPEX IP.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
[lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com: updated commit log]
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>