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 <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dmaengine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c | 1 - drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c | 1 - drivers/dma/mv_xor_v2.c | 1 - drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c | 1 - 4 files changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c b/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c index d19ea885c63e..5338a94f1a69 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ep93xx_dma.c @@ -1431,4 +1431,3 @@ subsys_initcall(ep93xx_dma_module_init); MODULE_AUTHOR("Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxx>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EP93xx DMA driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); diff --git a/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c b/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c index baab1ca9f621..d799b99c18bd 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_idmac.c @@ -1797,6 +1797,5 @@ static int __init ipu_init(void) subsys_initcall(ipu_init); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IPU core driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@xxxxxxx>"); MODULE_ALIAS("platform:ipu-core"); diff --git a/drivers/dma/mv_xor_v2.c b/drivers/dma/mv_xor_v2.c index 113834e1167b..22f485465951 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/mv_xor_v2.c +++ b/drivers/dma/mv_xor_v2.c @@ -920,4 +920,3 @@ static struct platform_driver mv_xor_v2_driver = { module_platform_driver(mv_xor_v2_driver); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DMA engine driver for Marvell's Version 2 of XOR engine"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c b/drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c index 158e5e7defae..588c5f409a80 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,5 @@ static void __exit shdma_exit(void) } module_exit(shdma_exit); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SH-DMA driver base library"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303