[PATCH 20/24] kbuild, gpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Fri Feb 17 06:10:55 PST 2023


Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.

So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi at fujitsu.com>
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani at kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-unisoc at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
index 62ba18b3a602..ab4137de5889 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-rda.c
@@ -286,4 +286,3 @@ module_platform_driver_probe(rda_gpio_driver, rda_gpio_probe);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA Micro GPIO driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303




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