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>
---
drivers/tty/n_null.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_null.c b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
index f913b665af725..c24f75942c49d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_null.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_null.c
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ static void __exit n_null_exit(void)
module_init(n_null_init);
module_exit(n_null_exit);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Alan Cox");
MODULE_ALIAS_LDISC(N_NULL);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Null ldisc driver");
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
