[PATCH 08/27] kbuild, clocksource: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Wed Feb 22 04:14:34 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: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32 at gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue at foss.st.com>
Cc: linux-stm32 at st-md-mailman.stormreply.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32-lp.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32-lp.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32-lp.c
index db2841d0beb8..4a10fb940de5 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32-lp.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32-lp.c
@@ -218,4 +218,3 @@ module_platform_driver(stm32_clkevent_lp_driver);
 
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:stm32-lptimer-timer");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("STMicroelectronics STM32 clockevent low power driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303




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