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: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c b/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c index 6ba7169cb953a..3c57e537d57fb 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c @@ -1276,4 +1276,3 @@ module_exit(pm860x_i2c_exit); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PMIC Driver for Marvell 88PM860x"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303