From 2fa365682943866baf85305ef701741fe41b27e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:07:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: soften MODULE_LICENSE check
Only modules that has other MODULE_* content
shall have the MODULE_LICENSE() tag.
This fixes allmodconfig build on my box.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index f8b42ab0724be..757294b4f3222 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1552,10 +1552,10 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname)
}
license = get_modinfo(info.modinfo, info.modinfo_len, "license");
- if (!license && !is_vmlinux(modname))
- fatal("modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in %s\n"
- "see include/linux/module.h for "
- "more information\n", modname);
+ if (info.modinfo && !license && !is_vmlinux(modname))
+ warn("modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in %s\n"
+ "see include/linux/module.h for "
+ "more information\n", modname);
while (license) {
if (license_is_gpl_compatible(license))
mod->gpl_compatible = 1;
--
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