# \[PATCH 02/27\] hwspinlock: remove MODULE\_LICENSE in non-modules

- Subsystems: HARDWARE SPINLOCK CORE, THE REST
- Maintainers: Bjorn Andersson, Linus Torvalds
- List: linux-modules
- 1 message, 1 author
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112413/t

## \[PATCH 02/27\] hwspinlock: remove MODULE\_LICENSE in non-modules

- From: Nick Alcock \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-02-24 15:08:46 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112413.md

```text
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: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <redacted>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Cc: <redacted>
---
 drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
index fd5f5c5a5244..5048e95c1413 100644
--- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c
@@ -949,6 +949,5 @@ struct hwspinlock *devm_hwspin_lock_request_specific(struct device *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwspin_lock_request_specific);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Hardware spinlock interface");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

```