# \[PATCH 25/27\] nvmem: core: remove MODULE\_LICENSE in non-modules

- From: Nick Alcock \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-02-24 15:11:56 
- List: linux-modules
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112429
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112429/t.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: Srinivas Kandagatla <redacted>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 321d7d63e068..b50f25b23325 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -1955,4 +1955,3 @@ module_exit(nvmem_exit);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("nvmem Driver Core");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

```