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: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/mfd/twl6040.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/twl6040.c b/drivers/mfd/twl6040.c index fc97fa5a2d0c3..e982119bbefa5 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/twl6040.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/twl6040.c @@ -839,4 +839,3 @@ module_i2c_driver(twl6040_driver); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TWL6040 MFD"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Misael Lopez Cruz <misael.lopez@xxxxxx>"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Jorge Eduardo Candelaria <jorge.candelaria@xxxxxx>"); -MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -- 2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303