[PATCH 15/20] tty: serial: imx: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Tue Feb 28 05:02:10 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby at kernel.org>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
---
 drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c
index 7aab38b2bd8cb..2dacd7ae63088 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c
@@ -47,4 +47,3 @@ OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx21, "fsl,imx21-uart", imx_console_early_setup);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("NXP");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IMX earlycon driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303




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