[PATCH] mctp: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 07:13:43 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: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
net/mctp/af_mctp.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(Reposted to netdev as requested.)

diff --git a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
index 3150f3f0c8725..bb4bd0b6a4f79 100644
--- a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
+++ b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ subsys_initcall(mctp_init);
module_exit(mctp_exit);

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MCTP core");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");

MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_MCTP);
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303