[PATCH 06/27] kbuild, pinctrl: bcm: ns: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Wed Feb 22 04:14:32 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: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-gpio at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c
index 465cc96814a1..f80630a74d34 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/bcm/pinctrl-ns.c
@@ -299,5 +299,4 @@ static struct platform_driver ns_pinctrl_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(ns_pinctrl_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Rafał Miłecki");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ns_pinctrl_of_match_table);
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303




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