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: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- net/mctp/af_mctp.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c index fc9e728b6333..2e763c398e92 100644 --- a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c +++ b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c @@ -694,7 +694,6 @@ subsys_initcall(mctp_init); module_exit(mctp_exit); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MCTP core"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"); MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_MCTP); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303