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: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-remoteproc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c index fd5f5c5a5244..5048e95c1413 100644 --- a/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c +++ b/drivers/hwspinlock/hwspinlock_core.c @@ -949,6 +949,5 @@ struct hwspinlock *devm_hwspin_lock_request_specific(struct device *dev, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwspin_lock_request_specific); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Hardware spinlock interface"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx>"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303