Commit eed7d279 authored by Sam Ravnborg's avatar Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: error out on missing MODULE_LICENSE

Adrian Bunk suggested a build time check for
missing MODULE_LICENSE annotation in modules.
The build time check is fatal as we really
want this fixed for all modules.
In-tree modules should all have been fixed up by now.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
parent b69d3987
......@@ -1552,6 +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);
while (license) {
if (license_is_gpl_compatible(license))
mod->gpl_compatible = 1;
......
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