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[PATCH 07/27] kbuild, MIPS: BCM47XX: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-22 12:17:27
Also in: linux-mips, lkml
Subsystem: broadcom nvram driver, the rest · Maintainers: Rafał Miłecki, 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: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/firmware/broadcom/bcm47xx_nvram.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/broadcom/bcm47xx_nvram.c b/drivers/firmware/broadcom/bcm47xx_nvram.c
index 5f47dbf4889a..0ea5206be4c9 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/broadcom/bcm47xx_nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/broadcom/bcm47xx_nvram.c
@@ -255,4 +255,3 @@ char *bcm47xx_nvram_get_contents(size_t *nvram_size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bcm47xx_nvram_get_contents);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
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