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/lp8788.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/lp8788.c b/drivers/mfd/lp8788.c index fe809b64147e6..18583addaae28 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/lp8788.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/lp8788.c @@ -244,4 +244,3 @@ module_exit(lp8788_exit); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TI LP8788 MFD Driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Milo Kim"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303