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: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-stm32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/mfd/stmpe-i2c.c | 1 - drivers/mfd/stmpe-spi.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/stmpe-i2c.c b/drivers/mfd/stmpe-i2c.c index d4944fc1feb1..7998e0db1e15 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/stmpe-i2c.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/stmpe-i2c.c @@ -135,6 +135,5 @@ static void __exit stmpe_exit(void) } module_exit(stmpe_exit); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("STMPE MFD I2C Interface Driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"); diff --git a/drivers/mfd/stmpe-spi.c b/drivers/mfd/stmpe-spi.c index e9cbf33502b3..792236f56399 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/stmpe-spi.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/stmpe-spi.c @@ -154,6 +154,5 @@ static void __exit stmpe_exit(void) } module_exit(stmpe_exit); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("STMPE MFD SPI Interface Driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Viresh Kumar <vireshk@xxxxxxxxxx>"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303