The Makefile/Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:

obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)             += setup_64.o sys_ppc32.o \
                                   signal_64.o ptrace32.o \
                                   paca.o nvram_64.o firmware.o

arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype:config PPC64
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype: bool "64-bit kernel"

...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.

Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit.

We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that.

We delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag since that information is already
contained at the top of the file in the comments.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Hari Bathini <redacted>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <redacted>
Cc: Andrzej Hajda <redacted>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <redacted>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 12 +-----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 0cab9e8c3794..856f9a7944cd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c

@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
  *       parsing code.
  */
 
-#include <linux/module.h>
-
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>

@@ -1231,12 +1229,4 @@ static int __init nvram_init(void)
   	
   	return rc;
 }
-
-static void __exit nvram_cleanup(void)
-{
-        misc_deregister( &nvram_dev );
-}
-
-module_init(nvram_init);
-module_exit(nvram_cleanup);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+device_initcall(nvram_init);

-- 
2.6.1