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: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-leds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c b/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c index 8cbc1b8bafa5..bc7e96c3732a 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-asic3.c @@ -173,5 +173,4 @@ module_platform_driver(asic3_led_driver); MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Parsons <lost.distance@xxxxxxxxx>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("HTC ASIC3 LED driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS("platform:leds-asic3"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303