[PATCH 23/24] kbuild, EDAC, altera: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock
Date: Fri Feb 17 2023 - 09:15:06 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: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
index e7e8e624a436..ba325d4c5e83 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,5 @@ static struct platform_driver altr_edac_a10_driver = {
};
module_platform_driver(altr_edac_a10_driver);

-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Thor Thayer");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("EDAC Driver for Altera Memories");
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303