[PATCH 10/27] leds: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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: Pavel Machek <redacted>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c b/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c
index 8cbc1b8bafa5..bc7e96c3732a 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c

@@ -173,5 +173,4 @@ module_platform_driver(asic3_led_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Parsons <lost.distance@yahoo.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("HTC ASIC3 LED driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:leds-asic3");

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2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Nick Alcock wrote:

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: Pavel Machek <redacted>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Mention the driver in the subject line please.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]