Re: [PATCH 27/27] kbuild, gpio: gpio-aspeed-sgpio: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

[Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 1:17 PM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Applied, thanks!

Bart