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: Andy Gross <agross@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c b/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c index 663c82749222..c1fef1b4bd89 100644 --- a/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c +++ b/drivers/bus/qcom-ebi2.c @@ -403,4 +403,3 @@ static struct platform_driver qcom_ebi2_driver = { module_platform_driver(qcom_ebi2_driver); MODULE_AUTHOR("Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Qualcomm EBI2 driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303