[PATCH 21/24] kbuild, serial: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock
Date: Fri Feb 17 2023 - 12:01:20 EST


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: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-unisoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
index be5c842b5ba9..c3b29d124759 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rda-uart.c
@@ -825,4 +825,3 @@ module_exit(rda_uart_exit);

MODULE_AUTHOR("Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RDA8810PL serial device driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303