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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-gpio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c | 1 - drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c index 17be21b8f3b7..e190bde5397d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-imx-scu.c @@ -136,4 +136,3 @@ subsys_initcall_sync(_imx_scu_gpio_init); MODULE_AUTHOR("Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NXP GPIO over IMX SCU API"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c index 7f59e5d936c2..390e619a2831 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mxs.c @@ -364,4 +364,3 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Freescale Semiconductor, " "Daniel Mack <danielncaiaq.de>, " "Juergen Beisert <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale MXS GPIO"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303