# \[PATCH 18/27\] mtd: bcm63xxpart: remove MODULE\_LICENSE in non-modules

- From: Nick Alcock \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-02-24 23:54:51 
- List: linux-modules
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112837
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-modules/2023/02/2112837/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: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: <redacted>
---
 drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
index b15bdadaedb5..6e7b1ae8f58f 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/bcm63xxpart.c
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ static struct mtd_part_parser bcm63xx_cfe_parser = {
 };
 module_mtd_part_parser(bcm63xx_cfe_parser);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Dickinson <openwrt@cshore.neomailbox.net>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Mike Albon <malbon@openwrt.org>");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

```