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 <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khalasa@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c b/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
index 91db001eb69a..f5ba6bee6fd8 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/intel-ixp4xx-eb.c
@@ -423,4 +423,3 @@ static struct platform_driver ixp4xx_exp_driver = {
module_platform_driver(ixp4xx_exp_driver);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Intel IXP4xx external bus driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
