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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c index 7aab38b2bd8cb..2dacd7ae63088 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c @@ -47,4 +47,3 @@ OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(ec_imx21, "fsl,imx21-uart", imx_console_early_setup); MODULE_AUTHOR("NXP"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IMX earlycon driver"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303