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: Avi Fishman <avifishman70@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tali Perry <tali.perry1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: openbmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c b/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c index ff5bcea172e8..4e12b3768d65 100644 --- a/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/nuvoton/pinctrl-npcm7xx.c @@ -2046,7 +2046,6 @@ static int __init npcm7xx_pinctrl_register(void) } arch_initcall(npcm7xx_pinctrl_register); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_AUTHOR("jordan_hargrave@xxxxxxxx"); MODULE_AUTHOR("tomer.maimon@xxxxxxxxxxx"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Nuvoton NPCM7XX Pinctrl and GPIO driver"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303