Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 15 authors, 2023-04-05
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[PATCH 03/24] kbuild, mfd: altera-sysmgr: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-17 14:11:50
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: multifunction devices (mfd), the rest · Maintainers: Lee Jones, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thor Thayer <redacted>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c b/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
index 5d3715a28b28..af205813b281 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/altera-sysmgr.c
@@ -198,4 +198,3 @@ module_exit(altr_sysmgr_exit);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer <>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SOCFPGA System Manager driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
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